Telling the Art Deco Story of Washington Heights Video Event
About the Program:
We are excited to take our Telling the Art Deco Stories of our Neighborhood's programs digital so that you can explore New York's wonderful Art Deco enclaves with the Art Deco Society of New York––from anywhere!
In this recorded video presentation—which you can enjoy from the comfort of your own home at a time that best fits your schedule—architectural historian, Anthony W. Robins, leads us on a tour of the Art Deco architecture of northern Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood.
Set high on a hill, its streets lined with attractive six-story Art Deco apartment houses, Washington Heights has more in common with West Bronx neighborhoods just across the Harlem River than with the rest of Manhattan. Throughout the online tour, we see how many of the same architects who worked on New York's famed Art Deco thoroughfare, the Grand Concourse, also designed apartment buildings on or near Fort Washington Avenue. Names such as Horace Ginsbern, Jacob Felson, and Israel Crausman may seem familiar to those of you who joined us on our online tour of the Grand Concourse.
We also see two taller apartment buildings, by Boak & Paris, which offer a more idiosyncratic take on the modernism of the 1930s. This Video Event includes a one-story taxpayer, and one of the city’s few frankly Deco subway entrances. But the star attraction will be the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist (now the Hebrew Tabernacle of Washington Heights), one of perhaps a dozen or so Art Deco houses of worship anywhere in the city!
This recorded Video Event includes the original PowerPoint—with wonderful images that you will be able to see directly on your computer screen, tablet, or mobile device.
About the Guide:
Anthony W. Robins has been guiding natives and visitors to the city’s wonders of steel and stone for twenty-five years. He has led hundreds of walking tours of New York history and architecture. A founding member of ADSNY, Robins created the Society’s original tour program in 1981. In 2017, the Guides Association of New York City honored him with the “Guiding Spirit Award.” He lectures on New York history and architecture to audiences both in the United States and abroad, teaches various levels of students about architecture and the development of New York City, and has authored five books and a number of short guide books, as well as many newspaper and magazine articles. His latest award-winning book, New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture, explores Art Deco throughout the five boroughs.
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