Past Events

Sponsored by Landmark West! A pleasant stroll along Central Park West for a closer look at the buildings that form Manhattan’s major residential skyline.

Walk the streets of the Great White Way, as we trace the history of New York’s Broadway theater district from Oscar Hammerstein in the 1890s to Walt Disney in the 1990s.

Sponsored by the Art Deco Society of New York. A pleasant stroll along Central Park West for a closer look at the buildings that form Manhattan’s major residential skyline.

Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society - reservations required. A pleasant stroll along Central Park West for a closer look at the buildings that form Manhattan’s major residential skyline. We’ll see the great twin-towered skyscraper apartment buildings – the Century, the Majestic and the El Dorado – and other multi-colored jazz-age fantasies of high living overlooking the park.

Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society. Reservations required. The Upper East Side—Manhattan’s Gold Coast—maintains an aura of conservative respectability, and perhaps as a result never attracted as much Art Deco flash as its counterpart on the west side of Central Park. Nevertheless, tucked among the Beaux-Arts town houses and sedate neo-Georgian apartment buildings, the neighborhood has some remarkable examples by some of the best architects.

Reservations required. Sponsored by Landmark West! A pleasant stroll along Central Park West for a closer look at the buildings that form Manhattan’s major residential skyline.

Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society. Reservations required. High up on a hill, its streets lined with modest but attractive six-story Art Deco apartment houses, Washington Heights has more in common with West Bronx neighborhoods just across the Harlem River than with the rest of Manhattan. Many of the same architects who worked on the Grand Concourse also designed apartment buildings on or near Fort Washington Avenue - we will see work by Horace Ginsbern, Jacob Felson, Israel Crausman, Miller and Goldhammer, Charles Kreymborg, and H. Herbert Lillien.

Reservations required - sponsored by the Scarsdale Adult School. Tour covers colonial-era relics and narrow Dutch streets, private banks and public squares, nineteenth-century church steeples, and twentieth-century skyscraper towers.

This course traces the brash new style of art deco, which transformed New York into a modern metropolis. Follow the style’s impact on five Manhattan neighborhoods, mixing commercial with residential buildings.

This course traces the brash new style of art deco, which transformed New York into a modern metropolis. Follow the style’s impact on five Manhattan neighborhoods, mixing commercial with residential buildings.

This course traces the brash new style of art deco, which transformed New York into a modern metropolis. Follow the style’s impact on five Manhattan neighborhoods, mixing commercial with residential buildings.

This course traces the brash new style of art deco, which transformed New York into a modern metropolis. Follow the style’s impact on five Manhattan neighborhoods, mixing commercial with residential buildings.

Reservations required. This tour begins at the edge of the financial district and continues into the Civic Center with the Federal Post Office, a WPA product of the Modern Classic, and three remarkable municipal buildings at the northern tip of the Foley Square courts district, plus three three communications-related behemoths designed by Ralph Walker.

This course traces the brash new style of art deco, which transformed New York into a modern metropolis. Follow the style’s impact on five Manhattan neighborhoods, mixing commercial with residential buildings.

Visit the publicly accessible interiors of major Art Deco marvels: the Daily News Building, the Chrysler Building, and the International Building and RCA (now Comcast) tower at Rockefeller Center.