Art Deco From Murray Hill to Gramercy Park

Jazz-Age Architecture in East Midtown

With Anthony W. Robins

This walk through the east side of Midtown South includes an unusual collection of buildings, each different from the next. We have a surprising modernist apartment building among the genteel town houses of Murray Hill; Ely Jacques Kahn’s most impressive office building (Two Park Avenue; and another Kahn building that’s no slouch); a work by Edgar Brandt, the great French iron master; the iconic Empire State Building; an incomplete attempt by Metropolitan Life to capture the Empire State Building’s “world’s tallest” title; and George and Edward Blum’s Gramercy House, with some of the most enjoyable Art Deco terra-cotta ornament in the city. Mr. Robins is Vice-President of the Art Deco Society of New York, and author of the award-winning book, “New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture.”

Sunday, March 31
2:00 PM — 4:00 PM

Tickets:
Member: $20
Non-member: $30

outside of art deco building in Murray Hill
Photo: Anthony W. Robins.