Events

[In-person tour] Residents of the Italian-American neighborhoods along Arthur Avenue in the Bronx are the guardians of what some would call New York’s “real Little Italy.” Home to Doo-Wop music and authentic Italian restaurants and shops, many of the area’s businesses has have been family owned and operated for generations. Join guide Alexandra Maruri as we explore the history of this vibrant Bronx neighborhood. Arthur Avenue was recognized as one of “America’s Great Streets” by the American Planning Association.

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

[In-person tour] The Municipal Art Society (MAS) has been leading tours of New York’s famous Grand Central Terminal longer than any other tour operator. In fact, MAS saved Grand Central back in the 1970s with the legendary help of our board member Jacqueline Onassis. Join us for a 75-to-90 minute exploration of one of New York’s most beautiful and beloved buildings. Our licensed tour leaders will fill you in on the history and the architecture and take you to some special places that many New Yorkers don’t even know about. Summer special: Prices shown are $10 off regular-price Grand Central tour tickets!

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

[In-person tour] This tour of Tribeca, focusing on its many cast-iron wonders, is a tribute to the legendary preservation advocate Margot Gayle, former member of the M.A.S. historic buildings committee and 1997 winner of the Society’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal. Without Margot’s efforts, Tribeca likely would not be the protected historic neighborhood it is today. Your guide, Anthony W. Robins, first led a tour of cast-iron architecture in Tribeca in the mid-1970s, as a volunteer for Margot’s “Friends of Cast-Iron Architecture” (where he cut his teeth as a tour guide, later becoming co-chair of walking tours). This walk retraces the steps of that tour of 50 years ago, with special focus on the work of James Bogardus – one of Margot’s special interests – as well as facades cast by D.D. Badger’s Architectural Iron Works, the only major 19th-century iron foundry whose catalog still exists. Most of the iron buildings visited are city landmarks; Mr. Robins, on the LPC staff in the 1980s and ‘90s, wrote several of the relevant designation reports.

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

[In-person tour] From quaint frame houses and brownstone rows to Queen Anne-style apartment buildings, join MAS and architectural historian Matt Postal for an early evening walking tour through the architectural treasure that is Brooklyn Heights. Once called New York’s first suburb, learn how this fashionable enclave has evolved and how its character has been continuously enhanced and maintained.

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

[In-person tour] The Municipal Art Society (MAS) has been leading tours of New York’s famous Grand Central Terminal longer than any other tour operator. In fact, MAS saved Grand Central back in the 1970s with the legendary help of our board member Jacqueline Onassis. Join us for a 75-to-90 minute exploration of one of New York’s most beautiful and beloved buildings. Our licensed tour leaders will fill you in on the history and the architecture and take you to some special places that many New Yorkers don’t even know about. Summer special: Prices shown are $10 off regular-price Grand Central tour tickets!

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

[In-person tour] Join tour guide Cullen Brown for an exploration of specialized infrastructure located in West Harlem. The focus is water – both the provision of fresh water as well as processingof wastewater. We will learn about the 135th St Croton Aqueduct Gatehouse, an excellent example of adaptive reuse of our historic built environment. Along the way, we will stop at the former site of a United Electric Light & Power Company retail store on Hamilton Place. The main attraction is the North River Wastewater Plant, which the community resisted even after the Riverbank State Park was added as a “sweetener” to appease them. Please note, there is one large staircase on this route.

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

[In-person tour] Downtown Brooklyn was once one of the busiest shopping districts in the country, known for its nationally known department stores. The postwar era saw the decline of the department stores, and an uncertain future for downtown Brooklyn. Recent years, however, have seen a complete reimagining of downtown as a place of luxury residential skyscrapers. In two walks, we will trace the history and recent transformations of this fascinating, and complicated, part of New York.

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

[In-person tour] The Municipal Art Society (MAS) has been leading tours of New York’s famous Grand Central Terminal longer than any other tour operator. In fact, MAS saved Grand Central back in the 1970s with the legendary help of our board member Jacqueline Onassis. Join us for a 75-to-90 minute exploration of one of New York’s most beautiful and beloved buildings. Our licensed tour leaders will fill you in on the history and the architecture and take you to some special places that many New Yorkers don’t even know about. Summer special: Prices shown are $10 off regular-price Grand Central tour tickets!

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

[In-person tour] From the once-regal Fifth Avenue shopping corridor west, architectural historian Matt Postal traces the origins and evolution of this important midtown neighborhood, stopping to view historic department stores and distinctive blocks of tiered loft buildings by such major architectural figures as Ely Jacques Kahn and Emery Roth. Rezoned in 2025 to protect local businesses and guide residential development, highlights include a number of recently-designated New York City landmarks, such as the Barbey and Furcraft Buildings, as well as Fashion Tower.

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

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[In-person tour] The Municipal Art Society (MAS) has been leading tours of New York’s famous Grand Central Terminal longer than any other tour operator. In fact, MAS saved Grand Central back in the 1970s with the legendary help of our board member Jacqueline Onassis. Join us for a 75-to-90 minute exploration of one of New York’s most beautiful and beloved buildings. Our licensed tour leaders will fill you in on the history and the architecture and take you to some special places that many New Yorkers don’t even know about. Summer special: Prices shown are $10 off regular-price Grand Central tour tickets!

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

[In-person tour] 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 – we will see work by Horace Ginsbern, Jacob Felson, Israel Crausman, Miller and Goldhammer, Charles Kreymborg, and H. Herbert Lillien. Two taller apartment buildings, by Boak and Paris, offer a more idiosyncratic take on the modernism of the 1930s. This walk with Anthony W. Robins 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. Mr. Robins is the author of the award-winning book, “New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture.”

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

[Virtual tour] During the earlier years, the Met was quite resistant against collecting contemporary art and this department was only founded in 1967. The question was difficult to answer: How do you confidently judge brand new art to know it will hold its value? By now the Met has become recognized for its superb collection of masterpieces of modern and contemporary art, which will soon move into a brand new home, the Tang Wing, designed by Frida Escobedo.This tour with art historian Sylvia Laudine-Meo focus on 20th century works by international artists, depicting NYC, this fantastic new metropolis with all its superlatives. From Cubism, Surrealism, Magic Realism, and Abstraction, artists chose a great variety of styles to capture the ever changing, energetic nature of the City that never sleeps.

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

operator. In fact, MAS saved Grand Central back in the 1970s with the legendary help of our board member Jacqueline Onassis. Join us for a 75-to-90 minute exploration of one of New York’s most beautiful and beloved buildings. Our licensed tour leaders will fill you in on the history and the architecture and take you to some special places that many New Yorkers don’t even know about. Summer special: Prices shown are $10 off regular-price Grand Central tour tickets!

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

[In-person tour] Sandwiched between two parks with lush greenery, Morningside Heights offers sweeping views over Manhattan and New Jersey while feeling surprisingly removed from the city below. A relatively young neighborhood in terms of urban development, it quickly became a center for education, religious life, music, mental health, and medical innovation. On this tour with Zack Rhodes we will explore the largest church in the United States built on the former site of one of New York’s oldest beer gardens, visit a former orphanage where President Polk once spoke, and talk about what once stood where Columbia University’s campus now sits today.

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

[In-person tour] The Municipal Art Society (MAS) has been leading tours of New York’s famous Grand Central Terminal longer than any other tour operator. In fact, MAS saved Grand Central back in the 1970s with the legendary help of our board member Jacqueline Onassis. Join us for a 75-to-90 minute exploration of one of New York’s most beautiful and beloved buildings. Our licensed tour leaders will fill you in on the history and the architecture and take you to some special places that many New Yorkers don’t even know about. Summer special: Prices shown are $10 off regular-price Grand Central tour tickets!

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

[In-person tour] Downtown Brooklyn was once one of the busiest shopping districts in the country, known for its nationally known department stores. The postwar era saw the decline of the department stores, and an uncertain future for downtown Brooklyn. Recent years, however, have seen a complete reimagining of downtown as a place of luxury residential skyscrapers. In two walks, we will trace the history and recent transformations of this fascinating, and complicated, part of New York.

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

[In-person tour] The Municipal Art Society (MAS) has been leading tours of New York’s famous Grand Central Terminal longer than any other tour operator. In fact, MAS saved Grand Central back in the 1970s with the legendary help of our board member Jacqueline Onassis. Join us for a 75-to-90 minute exploration of one of New York’s most beautiful and beloved buildings. Our licensed tour leaders will fill you in on the history and the architecture and take you to some special places that many New Yorkers don’t even know about. Summer special: Prices shown are $10 off regular-price Grand Central tour tickets!

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

[In-person tour] Once a center of commerce from the 17th to the 19th centuries, South Street Seaport has had to reinvent itself multiple times since. Using vintage photos and colorful stories, join Ginny Poleman on a journey showcasing how South Street Seaport was once a den of iniquity, to a tourist destination in the 1980s; from a casualty of 2012’s Superstorm Sandy to an emerging neighborhood for families.

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

[In-person tour] The Municipal Art Society (MAS) has been leading tours of New York’s famous Grand Central Terminal longer than any other tour operator. In fact, MAS saved Grand Central back in the 1970s with the legendary help of our board member Jacqueline Onassis. Join us for a 75-to-90 minute exploration of one of New York’s most beautiful and beloved buildings. Our licensed tour leaders will fill you in on the history and the architecture and take you to some special places that many New Yorkers don’t even know about. Summer special: Prices shown are $10 off regular-price Grand Central tour tickets!

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

[In-person tour] Walk through the West End-Collegiate Historic District and marvel at some of the speculatively built handsome rowhouses, designed by the immensely talented Clarence True, Lamb & Rich, and C.P.H. Gilbert, all in that quintessential blend of French, Italian, and Flemish Renaissance revival styles for which the last decade plus of the 19th century was known. Named for the nearby West End Collegiate Church at 77th and West End Avenue, explore the West End-Collegiate Historic District and its extensions with preservationist and architectural historian James Russiello to see these rowhouses and the layers of development of succeeding apartment buildings built for the affluent as living styles evolved. Learn about how key developers’ and strong personalities, along with the Citizens' West Side Improvement Association, and a very early “preservation” group, and modern adaptive reuse projects built and shaped this section of the Upper West Side for the upwardly mobile.

For all tours, there are no refunds, cancellations, or exchanges unless we cancel a tour. Online registration closes one hour prior to the tour start time.

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