In the Heights! Art Deco, That Is!
About the Program:
Join ADSNY for this in-person walking tour with architectural historian Tony Robins who will lead us through the beauty of Art Deco in Washington Heights!
High up on a hill, its streets lined with modest but 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. Many of the same architects who worked on the Grand Concourse also designed apartment buildings on or near Fort Washington Avenue––on this in-person walking tour we will see work by Horace Ginsbern, Jacob Felson, Israel Crausman, Miller & Goldhammer, Charles Kreymborg, and H. Herbert Lillien.
Two taller apartment buildings on the tour, by Boak & Paris, offer a more idiosyncratic take on the modernism of the 1930s. Our walk will also include a one-story taxpayer, and one of the city’s few frankly Deco subway entrances. But the star attraction is 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.
About the Guide:
Anthony W. Robins has been guiding natives and visitors to the city’s wonders of steel and stone for decades. 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 six books and a number of short guidebooks, as well as many newspaper and magazine articles. His award-winning book, New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture (SUNY Press, 2017), explores Art Deco throughout the five boroughs.
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