Deco On Demand Package: New York City Art Deco Adventurer
In the Art Deco Society's of New York's most robust Deco On DemandTM video package, we are elated to showcase our city's copious amounts of Art Deco architecture and design, as well as the unique culture of this spirited era!
This Deco On DemandTM package of seven web-based illustrated talks, inspired by our Telling the Art Deco Stories of Our Neighborhoods program, is a unique and engaging way for any Deco enthusiast to explore some of New York's delightful, yet lesser-known, Art Deco enclaves in Manhattan and beyond.
The best part of this package is that you can watch these video On Demand events at any time, from anywhere. You won't have to watch the entire series—which contains over ten hours of delightful Deco content—all at once, as your access link and password will allow you to start and stop the series whenever you'd like! This special package also gives you the opportunity to watch and re-watch these engaging programs as often as you want through January 30, 2025.
These recorded video events include the original PowerPoints—with wonderful images that can be seen directly on your computer screen, tablet, or mobile device.
Scroll down to learn more about each program included in this Deco On DemandTM package.
About the Programs:
Program 1–Telling the Art Deco Story of Bay Ridge
To kick things off, you will enjoy this virtual tour, led by architectural historian, Matt Postal, who will guide you through the Art Deco and interwar architecture of Brooklyn's Bay Ridge neighborhood.
Located in southwest Brooklyn, overlooking the Narrows, our online tour route highlights some of the borough's least-known, yet exquisite, Art Deco designs. Highlights include a memorable collection of residential and commercial confections, such as Grately Hall, Harbor Hall, the Marine View Apartments, the former Lincoln Savings Bank, and so much more!
This exciting tour is sure to be a delight!
Click here for all the details about this program.
Program 2–Telling the Art Deco Story of Brighton Beach
This visually enchanting tour takes you on a virtual visit to the intriguing interwar past of this beachy and culturally diverse neighborhood on the Coney Island peninsula and illustrates why it is one of the city’s TOP destinations for Art Deco explorers.
As we "stroll" through this Art Deco mecca with architectural historian Matt Postal, you will discover magnificent residential and commercial buildings that exemplify the modern architectural vocabulary that we now know as Art Deco. This video program, also highlights the stunning interior spaces hidden behind many of the beautifully preserved façades in the community.
This impressive presentation is sure to be a trip! Click here for all the details about this program.
Program 3–Telling the Art Deco Story of The Grand Concourse, Part One
Architectural historian Anthony W. Robins, leads you on a tour of the superb interwar architectural treasures of the Grand Concourse—The Bronx's famed Art Deco thoroughfare!
This virtual walk up the southern end of the Concourse focuses on the area's marvelous apartment buildings and their richly designed Art Deco lobbies.
As a special treat, this “visit” to the Bronx also includes an interview with one of the Concourse's prominent architect's Marvin Fine, who designed not just the Park Plaza Apartments but also many of the Grand Concourse wonders, including the Fish Building! Thanks to an interview with our tour guide taped over 40 years ago, we get to hear Fine talk about his Art Deco designs.
You will be as blown away as we were with this wonderful program! Click here for all the details about this program.
Program 4–Telling the Art Deco Story of The Grand Concourse, Part Two
This web-based tour continues our winding "walk" up the gently curving path of the Grand Concourse towards its northern edge. In this Video Event, you will visit more of the area's remarkable Art Deco apartment buildings, as well as Deco beyond the residential.
Highlights include the:
- Wagner Building, with its entrance suggestive of the Chrysler Building, which leads to one of the finest intact commercial lobbies anywhere in the city
- Dollar Savings Bank, whose clock tower is one of the Bronx’s true landmarks
- Bronx Zoo’s admired Rainey Gates
- Exquisite Herman Ridder Junior High School
- Visionary mid-1930s “Play Centers” built by Robert Moses
. . . and more!
We know the you will enjoy this continued immersion into The Bronx's famed Art Deco. Click here for all the details about this program.
Program 5–Telling the Art Deco Story of Inwood
This online tour showcases the Art Deco treasures of Inwood and highlights how this neighborhood, perched atop Manhattan’s northern tip, boasts an unexpectedly large concentration of Art Deco gems.
In this web-based tour, architectural historian, Matt Postal, leads you through the Art Deco architecture and design that makes this community so special.
You will get an in-depth virtual visit to apartment houses designed by the celebrated architects Boak & Paris, Horace Ginsbern, and George G. Miller, among others. Highlights of this treasure-trove tour include distinctive lobby designs, wonderful period murals, a WPA boathouse and stylized park furnishings, plus much more!
We know you will appreciate the Art Deco treasures of this surprising neighborhood! Click here for all the details about this program.
Program 6–Telling the Art Deco Story of Sunnyside
In this recorded video presentation, you will tour rarely explored interwar architectural treasures of Sunnyside Queens, led by architectural historian, Matt Postal. You'll see how many of the buildings in Sunnyside were built during the 1920s and 30s, at the height of the Art Deco style!
Any Deco enthusiast is sure to be impressed by this fascinating look into the renowned buildings such as:
- The Golden Gate Apartments
- The Beautifully restored Packard Towers
- Back-to-back twin apartment buildings with lovely Deco detailing
- Sunnyside Gardens, hailed for its innovative design and a subject of study among architecture students worldwide
and more!
This tour of one of Queen's most impressive Art Deco enclaves is a true treat! Click here for all the details about this program.
Program 7–Telling the Art Deco Story of Washington Heights
During this online tour, lead by architectural historian Anthony W. Robins, you will visit this Manhattan neighborhood that boasts designs by many of the same esteemed architects who built the gems along the Grand Concourse.
You'll also see two taller apartment buildings by Boak & Paris that offer a more idiosyncratic take on the modernism of the 1930s. This On Demand 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 scenic tour punctuates our look at New York's lesser-known but impressive Art Deco enclaves! Click here for all the details about this program.
Registration:
How to Register for ADSNY's Web-based programs:
- Click the gold Register button located to the left of the "About the Program" section
- Enter the requested information in the registration form and follow the instructions to pay online and complete your registration
- In a few moments, your registration confirmation containing your link and unique password to watch the video event will be sent to the email address you used to register. If you do not see this email in your inbox, please check your spam folder
If you need further assistance registering for this event, or are experiencing a different issue, please email Events@ArtDeco.org, let us know which events you would like to register for, and we will send you an invoice that can be easily completed without going through the ArtDeco.org website.
All ticket sales are final. Sorry, there are no refunds or exchanges.
ADSNY is not able to issue new access information for this video event after the expiration date of the access link and password you receive upon your registration.
