Art Deco Icons of NYC Tour

Visitors will explore the global origins of Art Deco, tracing how the 1925 Paris Exhibition blended Cubism, the Ballets Russes, and ancient cultures into a bold modern style.(10 min)

Spot whimsical maritime "rat" guards on the marquee and limestone reliefs depicting early technology like candlestick telephones and delivery trucks.(10 min)

Weekdays only. Step inside a dramatic triangular lobby lined with African red granite to admire a massive restored ceiling mural celebrating Machine Age aviation and human power. Weekend tours will not step inside the Chrysler Building.(10 min)

Admire a 1929 bronze frieze charting the evolution of life, then step into a lobby of bronze grilles and reliefs built as a monument to one immigrant's rise.(10 min)

See the tower a radiator company clad in black brick and gilded gold so it would read like a lump of coal catching fire, then look across at 500 Fifth Avenue, designed by the architects of the Empire State Building while they were building it nine blocks away.(10 min)

Explore the crown jewel of Art Deco urban design, featuring the monumental Atlas and Prometheus statues, the world-famous sunken plaza and ice rink, a 0.75-mile underground concourse, and 30 Rock's grand lobby murals with their optical illusion ceilings.(30 min)

See a striking Art Deco skyscraper whose Gothic-inspired brickwork, curving corner, and dramatic crown of terra-cotta lightning bolts serve as a physical embodiment of early radio and electrical power.(10 min)

view a 1930s twin-towered skyscraper engineered in "Waldorf Gray" brick directly over active Grand Central railroad tracks using structural expansion joints.(10 min)

Finish at the 1927 tower, built as the Beverly, whose silhouette and warrior head corbels so captivated Georgia O'Keeffe that she painted it as New York Night.(10 min)