Tours

New York City’s original walking tour program

Led by expert guides with deep knowledge of New York City architecture, art, urban history, preservation, neighborhoods and street life, the MAS Tours Program has been bringing eyes on the street since 1956. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Duration: Tours last about two hours.

Weather: With rare exception, all tours proceed rain or shine, and all sales are final.

Refunds/Exchanges: There are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges, unless we cancel a tour.

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Grand Central Terminal Official Guided Tour

Every day at 12:30 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

main floor at Grand Central Terminal

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Shaping Our City: Midtown Transformed, 1900-1925

with Matt Postal

Saturday, October 19 at 11:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

exterior, Main Branch of the New York Public Library, 1914

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On and Off the Avenue: Flatbush Avenue

with Francis Morrone

Sunday, October 20 at 2:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

looking down Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn

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Hell’s Kitchen

with Patrick Waldo

Saturday, October 26 at 11:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

mural in Hell's Kitchen, 1974

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From Bush Terminal to Industry City

with Melanie Macchio

Saturday, October 26 at 2:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

rendering of proposed buildings in Industry City

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Focus on: Bushwick

with Laurence Frommer

Sunday, October 27 at 2:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

brownstone buildings on Bushwick Avenue

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Tribeca / Civic Center Art Deco

with Anthony W. Robins

Sunday, October 27 at 2:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

exterior of the Health Building at 125 Worth Street

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Artists of Washington Square

with Bruce Weber

Saturday, November 2 at 11:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

arch in Washington Square Park

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Steinway Village

with Bob Singleton

Saturday, November 2 at 11:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

illustration, exterior of the Steinway Mansion

guide leads a tour group and holds a Municipal Art Society of New York sign

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When New York Was Nieuw Amsterdam

with Joe Svehlak

Sunday, November 3 at 11:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

painting of sailing ships along the New Amsterdam coastline

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Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan

with Robert Depczenski

Sunday, November 3 at 11:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

Minetta Lane in Greenwich Village

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Shaping Our City: “Modern” Times in Midtown, 1930-1960

with Matt Postal

Saturday, November 9 at 11:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

Lever Building on Park Avenue

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with Dalton Whiteside

Saturday, November 9 at 2:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

Exterior of City College buildings

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East 52nd Street

with Francis Morrone

Sunday, November 10 at 2:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

exterior of the Racquet Tennis Club building on Park Avenue

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Focus On: Southern Boulevard

with Laurence Frommer

Sunday, November 10 at 2:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

park with equipment from the concrete plant within it

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Tribeca Art Galleries

with Sylvia Laudien-Meo

Friday, November 15 at 2:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

interior of New York Academy of Art Gallery in Tribeca

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Ghosts of the Five Points

with Lloyd Trufelman

Saturday, November 16 at 11:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

Carts and wagons on street in Mulberry Bend, New York

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Richmond Hill North

with William Gati, AIA, RA, MUP

Saturday, November 16 at 1:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

wooden home with porch in Richmond Hill, Queens

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Long Island City

with Bob Singleton

Sunday, November 17 at 11:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

waterfront at Long Island City

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Lincoln Center Architecture Tour

with John Arbuckle

Sunday, November 17 at 2:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

plaza and fountain at Lincoln Center

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The Magnificent Grand Concourse

with Sam Goodman

Saturday, November 23 at 11:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

Exterior of the Andrew Freedman Home on the Grand Concourse

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Bedford-Stuyvesant Eastern District

with Suzanne Spellen & Morgan Munsey

Saturday, November 23 at 2:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

row houses in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn

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SoHo Cast Iron Historic District

with Anthony W. Robins

Sunday, November 24 at 1:30 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

street signs for Greene Street and Prince Street

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New York Ornament: 42nd Street

with Francis Morrone

Sunday, November 24 at 2:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

ornate clock on the exterior of Grand Central Terminal

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Discovering Lady Moody’s Gravesend

with Melanie Macchio

Saturday, November 30 at 2:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

outside of church in Gravesend, Brooklyn

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Subway Art Tour One

with Phil Desiere

Sunday, December 1 at 1:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

a tile mural in a subway station

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The Chelsea Historic District

with Laurence Frommer

Sunday, December 1 at 2:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

row houses on Cushman Row in Chelsea

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Shaping Our City: Midtown Since Modernism

with Matt Postal

Saturday, December 7 at 11:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

exterior of Tower Fifty Seven at 135 East 57th Street in Manhattan

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with Stephen Eide

Saturday, December 7 at 11:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

exterior of New York City Hall in 1919

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History of East Harlem

with Zack Rhodes

Sunday, December 8 at 11:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

exterior of clothing store in East Harlem

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McKim, Mead & White in Midtown South

with Francis Morrone

Sunday, December 8 at 2:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

exterior of the Goelet Building at 900 Broadway in Manhattan

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Chelsea Art Galleries

with Sylvia Laudien-Meo

Friday, December 13 at 10:30 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

man views painting at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

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A Christmas History in Gramercy

with Dana Schulz

Saturday, December 14 at 10:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

Flatiron building with snow on the ground, 1905

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Stuyvesant Heights in Brooklyn

with Suzanne Spellen & Morgan Munsey

Saturday, December 14 at 2:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

wooden home with porch in Stuyvesant Heights

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Celebrating George McAneny’s New York

with Lucie Levine

Sunday, December 15 at 11:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

George McAneny writing at desk

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Old and New on the Lower East Side

with Patrick Waldo

Sunday, December 15 at 2:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

East Houston Street at Allen Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, The All-Nite Images.

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Christmastime on Arthur Avenue

with Alexandra Maruri

Saturday, December 21 at 11:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

fruit at a market on Arthur Avenue

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Legal Landmarks

with Robert Pigott

Saturday, December 21 at 11:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

outside the Tweed Courthouse

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New York in the Time of Washington Irving

with Francis Morrone

Sunday, December 22 at 2:00 PM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

portrait of Washington Irving

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Christmas Day in Rockefeller Center

with Anthony W. Robins

Wednesday, December 25 at 10:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center

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Historic Cobble Hill in Brooklyn

with Zack Rhodes

Sunday, December 29 at 11:00 AM

Member: $20 | Non-member: $30

intersection of Henry and Congress Streets in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn

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