Art Deco on the Upper East Side: A Walking Tour

The Upper East Side maintains an aura of conservative respectability, and perhaps as a result never attracted as much Art Deco flash as other areas in New York City. Nevertheless, tucked among the Beaux-Arts town houses and sedate neo-Georgian apartment buildings, the neighborhood has some remarkable examples by some of the city’s best architects of the period, including an apartment house by Raymond Hood (of Rockefeller Center fame); one of Manhattan’s very few Art Deco town houses, by Harry Allan Jacobs; the elegant Carlyle Hotel; and one of the first Art Deco apartment buildings in New York City.

The tour will be led by Anthony W. Robins, Vice President Emeritus of the Art Deco Society of New York and author of the award-winning  New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture.

 

Details

SUNDAY, October 26
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

$20 for current members / $35 for non-members

*If you are not sure about your membership status, please e-mail: info@friends-ues.org.

Photo by Anthony W. Robins