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Midtown Manhattan Art and Architecture Walking Tour

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Highlights

This Midtown Manhattan walking tour is a comprehensive look at the city's historical development as told through the buildings themselves. Fascinating strands of social, cultural, technological, real estate and zoning law histories are woven together in this wide and deep look New York's Midtown art and architecture.

Itinerary

  • Eighth Avenue

    15 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    We begin at the boundary of Hells Kitchen and Times Square with an overview of the city's historic move uptown. We cover the basics of historical (academic) architecture up to the Modern period, and from overblown Beaux Arts to ornament-free skyscrapers. We learn the fundamentals of zoning in this POPS (Privately Owned Public Space). Works by Sidney Simon and Matt Mullican.
  • 350 W 50th St

    3 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    The subway station below Worldwide Plaza is an example of evolving zoning law history; incised granite by Matt Mullican is part of the program.
  • citizenM New York Times Square Hotel

    3 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    On the way to Citizen M and Julian Opie's larger-than-life wall art we scan the skyline for Hearst Tower and the New York Times Building.
  • Times Square(통과)

    Admission Ticket Free
    We stop at the Allianz Building and Warner Music Group to take in the view of Times Square from the north. Zoning laws achieved a look inspired by Tokyo!
  • The Brill Building

    5 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    We use the Brill Building to launch into a short discussion the role Times Square and much of today's Midtown played (and still do) as holding almost a monopoly on the history of American culture: Music, theater, radio, television, books, magazines, newspapers, advertising, even automobiles.
  • BNP Paribas

    5 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    We pass the Winter Garden, the Taft Hotel, and the building that inspired the song MONY MONY. We transition into private corporate space in the lobby of 787 7th Avenue and we go from commercial culture to corporate commercial. Expensive art and monumental feats of architecture are the mainstays of the remainder of the tour. Roy Lichtenstein opens us to the world of corporate art appropriately with Mural with Blue Brushstroke, a work he painted in place before the building opened. Out back in the POPS are works by Sol Le Witt and Barry Flannagan.
  • 6 1/2 Avenue

    3 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    We look as far uptown as we can along this 6-block long quirk in zoning, so-called "6 1/2 Avenue," a mid-block arcade that doesn't quite connect Times Square with Central Park.
  • UBS Art Gallery

    5 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    They have a world renown collection and their lobby is divided between temporary and permanent exhibits that include Frank Stella and Sarah Morris.
  • 1271 Avenue of the Americas

    3 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    The lobby of the Time and Life building is a Modern classic with its stainless steel panels and terrazzo floor. Large wall art by Fritz Glarner, a student of Mondrian.
  • Exxon Building(통과)

    Admission Ticket Free
    Monumental is the common theme to works by Hiroshu Senju and Kan Yasuda. Outside on the plaza is La Gran Manzana.
  • Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas)

    5 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    We stop in 1221 (the McGraw Hill building) the see a work by visual artist Mark Bradford. Out onto Sixth Avenue stand below "Skyscraper Alley," some of the worst products wrought by man and zoning law. Across the street begins the art and architecture, and story Rockefeller Center, one of the greatest civic-minded entrepreneurial (seriously) projects in modern history. The Art Deco of Rockefeller Center would come to define the style. Most interesting to point out are the subtle shifts from the "Modernistic" (Art Deco) to the Modern as the project progressed after the passing of Raymond Hood.
  • Radio City Music Hall

    3 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    We learn the origin story of the name for every venue today named Roxy.
  • Rockefeller Center(통과)

    Admission Ticket Free
    The politics of the day, and the Rockefeller family dynamic, are the most interesting backstories to the art history of likely the most important corporate lobby in Modern history. The story of radio and David Sarnoff is also integral to the story.
  • The Rink at Rockefeller Center

    5 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    Art and architecture reach their apex outside where the Christmas tree goes every year. There is a mix-bag of interesting history: holdouts, Diego Rivera and the Rockefellers, the story of the ice-skating rink and perhaps the greatest reversal-of-fortune in Rockefeller Center history.
  • Rockefeller Center

    5 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    The lobby of the International Building is a work of art itself. Light and Movement by Michio Lhaza are the wall "center pieces." Atlas by Lee Lawrie stands outside facing St. Pat's
  • St. Patrick's Cathedral

    3 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    The history of Fifth Avenue is told through its buildings.
  • Lotte New York Palace(통과)

    Admission Ticket Free
    As we make our way to Park Avenue we pass striking juxtapositions of the Modern and the Beaux Arts. the Villard Houses are now the Palace Hotel.
  • Park Avenue

    5 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    Architecture. We learn the evolution of Park Avenue from open train tracks, to high end residential, to today's corporate buildings. Buildings discussed are: The Health and Racquet Club (1918), St. Bart's (1919), The New York Central Building (1929), The Waldorf Astoria (1931), The GE Building (1931), Lever House (1952), The Seagram Building (1958), and the Met Life Building (1963).
  • Christie's Sculpture Garden

    3 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    535 Madison Avenue is hat trick for architecture, zoning laws, and works by three French artists, about 20 years apart: Leger, DuBuffet, and Francois-Xavier LaLannes.
  • Papillon Bistro & Bar

    2 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    A fascinating example of a "successful" holdout in New York's high pressure real estate market. A great option for lunch or dinner after the tour.
  • 550 Madison Ave(통과)

    Admission Ticket Free
    A Philip Johnson Building with a recently re-designed, and likely the most spectacular outdoor POPS in the city. If there's time we can go inside to see Solid Sky by Alicia Kwade.
  • 590 Madison Avenue(통과)

    Admission Ticket Free
    The IBM Building's POPS is regularly the most highly-rated in the city. Applefest pieces.
  • 244 5th Ave

    3 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    Finally, we exit onto 57th Street where we end the tour beneath Billionaire's Row, skinny residential towers that are the latest redesign of the Manhattan skyline; astronomical heights and prices.

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Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Good To Know
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately

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