January 2018
Tour: Manhattan's Art Deco Interiors
Visit the publicly accessible interiors of half a dozen Art Deco marvels: the Daily News Building, the Chrysler Building, the Chanin Building, the General Electric Building and the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center.
Find out more »TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building's unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases -- plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.
Find out more »TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
Reservations required - click here. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building's unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases -- plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling. For more, see the blog post.
Find out more »February 2018
Course: MASter Class – Researching the History of Buildings in New York City – Session No. 1
Learn how to unearth detailed information about New York City buildings in this MAS seminar now in its 30th year. Four evening sessions plus a morning field-trip.
Find out more »Course: MASter Class – Researching the History of Buildings in New York City – Session No. 2
Learn how to unearth detailed information about New York City buildings in this MAS seminar now in its 30th year. Four evening sessions plus a morning field-trip.
Find out more »TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building's unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases -- plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.
Find out more »Course: MASter Class – Researching the History of Buildings in New York City – Session No. 3
Learn how to unearth detailed information about New York City buildings in this MAS seminar now in its 30th year. Four evening sessions plus a morning field-trip.
Find out more »TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building's unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases -- plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.
Find out more »Course: MASter Class – Researching the History of Buildings in New York City – Session No. 4
Learn how to unearth detailed information about New York City buildings in this MAS seminar now in its 30th year. Four evening sessions plus a morning field-trip.
Find out more »March 2018
TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building's unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases -- plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.
Find out more »TOUR: Art Deco Central Park West
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.
Find out more »TOUR: Grand Central Terminal
A walking tour that brings the Terminal to life - its remarkable history, stunning architecture, and central role in creating midtown Manhattan.
Find out more »TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building's unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases -- plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.
Find out more »BOOK TALK: "New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture"
New York Art Deco: Book talk and signing, sponsored by the Bethpage Public Library.
Find out more »April 2018
BOOK TALK: "New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture"
New York Art Deco: Book talk and signing, sponsored by the Murray Hill Neighborhood Association.
Find out more »TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building's unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases -- plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.
Find out more »SOLD OUT – TOUR: Art Deco from Murray Hill to Gramercy Park
A tour of Art Deco from Murray Hill to Gramercy Park, sponsored by the Art Deco Society of New York.
Find out more »TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building's unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases -- plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.
Find out more »May 2018
BOOK TALK: "New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture"
New York Art Deco: Book talk and signing, sponsored by the Scarsdale Adult School.
Find out more »TOUR: Central Park as a Work of Art
Sponsored by the New York Botanical Garden, Members Trips. (To take this tour, you must be a member of the Botanical Garden - click here for membership details.) Reservations required: call 1-718-817-8703, email membership@nybg.org, or click here (scroll down to find the tour) to register on-line. Perhaps best-known of New York's official "Scenic Landmarks," Central Park offers New Yorkers refuge, recreation and rejuvenation; a temporary haven from a city of brick and steel, concrete and glass. And yet this park which delights us…
Find out more »TOUR: Hebrew Tabernacle of Washington Heights
Free and open to the public. As part of the "Sacred Sites Open House Weekend" (May 5-6, 2018) sponsored by the New York Landmarks Conservancy, the remarkably intact Art Deco designed Hebrew Tabernacle of Washington Heights (originally the Fourth Church of Christ Scientist) will be open to the public, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. For more about the building, see the National Register nomination which I researched and wrote a few years ago. More information about the event will be…
Find out more »TOUR: Downtown Art Deco
Towering above the narrow streets of the old Dutch colony of Nieuw Amsterdam are some of the country’s finest zigzag and streamlined delights, glittering pinnacles of Wall Street prosperity, monuments to the high-flying corporations of 1920s banking, oil, and telecommunications.
Find out more »TOUR: The fabulous Broadway theaters – Times Square Reborn
Scarsdale Adult School. Walk the streets of “the Great White Way,” tracing the history of New York’s Broadway theater district from Oscar Hammerstein in the 1890s to Walt Disney in the 1990s. See the great Broadway theaters built between the turn of the century and the onset of the Great Depression -- stunning works of art in themselves, and monuments to the lively history of American theater.
Find out more »TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building's unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases -- plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.
Find out more »June 2018
TOUR: Grand Central Terminal
A walking tour that brings the Terminal to life - its remarkable history, stunning architecture, and central role in creating midtown Manhattan.
Find out more »TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building's unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases -- plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.
Find out more »Tour: Art Deco on the Upper Upper West Side (that’s not a typo)
A meandering walk across the upper west tracts of the Upper West Side, from West 85th to 103rd streets. We see work by such stalwart Manhattan Deco icons as Sugarman & Berger, Boak & Paris, and Harvey Wiley Corbett, as well as architects less well known for their Deco productions, including Emery Roth and Rosario Candela.
Find out more »TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building's unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases -- plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.
Find out more »July 2018
TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building's unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases -- plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.
Find out more »TOUR: Art Deco architecture in Midtown Manhattan
What would Manhattan be without its Roaring Twenties modernistic art deco skyscrapers? From East 42nd Street to Rockefeller Center.
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