Events

lorem ipsum

[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.

[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.

Long before 'Anora' won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2025, the neighborhood of Brighton Beach has captured America's imagination.

We'll discuss the history of the neighborhood from turn of the century resort destination to diverse immigrant enclave today, with stops at local markets, cafes, community landmarks, and filming locations along the way. The tour will end on the famous Boardwalk during the sunset hour.

Please wear comfortable walking shoes and bring water and sun protection as we'll be right next to the beach on the boardwalk.

[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.

[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] 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 highlights the great architecture and history of western Bedford Stuyvesant. On its streets you'll find great 19th century residential architecture, the mansion of one of Brooklyn's great retail store families, a Carnegie Library, several fine houses of worship, schools, fancy clubhouses, and even some exemplary examples of Art Deco architecture. What? In Bed Stuy? Yes, indeed! We'll tell you about important social movements, rogues, saints and bootleggers, all of which took place on these streets. Western Bedford Stuyvesant has a bit of everything. Join Suzanne Spellen for this tour.

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] In 1892 the great Czech composer Antonín Dvořák moved to New York to be the director of the National Conservatory of Music, located on East 17th Street between Third Avenue and Irving Place. He lived in a brick row house (sadly demolished) on East 17th between First and Second Avenues. He lived in New York, and traveled across America, until 1895, when he returned to Prague. The high point: the world premiere of his Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World," at Carnegie Hall on December 16, 1893. Your guide has always led this tour around that date, and the weather, year after year, has been bone-chillingly cold. This time we switch to a date near the composer's birth, September 8, 1841 (185 years ago) in hopes of splendid weather. The tour is about Dvořák's life in New York, the vibrant musical culture in the city at that time, and a fascinating cast of characters including Will Marion Cook, James Huneker (one of your guide's heroes), Harry T. Burleigh, Leopold Eidlitz, Theodore Thomas, Jeannette Thurber, William S. Rainsford, William Steinway, Harry T. Finck, and others who helped make New York a musical mecca.

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] The peaceful blocks that extend east from Gramercy Park feature groups of mid-19th and 20th century structures that are frequently ignored by New Yorkers. Call this quiet neighborhood what you will, architectural historian Matt Postal highlights notable buildings in the Stuyvesant Square Historic District, significant commercial structures adapted to residential use, and sites associated with leading cultural figures, such as Antonin Dvorak, Amedee Ozenfant, and Lionel Feininger.

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] Originally a Native American footpath and Dutch farm road, the Bowery was the city’s first entertainment district and “cradle of American popular culture.” It has seminal links to tap dance, vaudeville, Yiddish theater, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, baseball, modern tattooing, and Harry Houdini. The stomping ground for sailors, shopgirls, gangs, gays, grifters and the immigrant Irish, Italians, Chinese, Jews and Germans, it later became America’s iconic skid row, but rebounded in the late 20th century, impacting the emergence of Abstract Expressionism, free jazz and punk rock.
Architectural sites include the city’s oldest brick house, Stanford White’s Beaux Arts designed Bowery Savings Bank, and the Cooper Union, one of America’s first free universities. In 2013 it was named to the National Register of Historic Places. Join David Mulkins, author of The Bowery, a just-released illustrated history.

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] 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] Long viewed as a working class and immigrant neighborhood, Greenpoint is now a major hub for the arts and cuisine, with a skyline containing modern high rises. While walking the streets of this neighborhood, we will discuss how the Civil War, pierogies, and pencils are at the core of the culture and architecture we will be seeing. During this tour we will visit the oldest continuously operating elementary school in Brooklyn, housing for employees for the former Astral Oil Works, and learn about how a tiny inlet became the most famous pool in Brooklyn. Led by Zack Rhodes.

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 MAS Director of Tours Ted Mineau for a Sunday morning exploration of his favorite NYC neighborhood. We’ll see sights associated with the rich heritage of art and artists, along with some architectural oddities, and classic examples of Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, and tenement styles.

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. Fall 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.

[Virtual tour] Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo are among the most renowned modern Mexican artists. Their works explore cultural and personal identity, postcolonialism, and the struggles of the working class. Rivera was influenced by avant-garde movements such as Cubism and Post-Impressionism. In the 1920s, he studied Renaissance fresco painting before joining the pioneering Mexican Muralist Movement, which later inspired Depression-era murals in the United States. He received major commissions in New York, San Francisco, and Detroit. Frida Kahlo’s work is more closely associated with Surrealism and is deeply autobiographical. Her paintings are smaller in scale and rich with personal symbolism. Viewed together, their art provides powerful insight into the complexity and richness of modern Mexico in the aftermath of the Revolution. We join MoMA and the Metropolitan Opera in paying tribute to them.

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] Greater than the sum of their parts, this walking tour explores some of the most beautiful named streets in the Park Slope Historic District, originally designated in 1973. Led by architectural historian and resident Matt Postal, learn how specific individuals shaped the character of specific blocks, particularly Brooklyn-based architects and developers. Exceptional Queen Anne and Classical Revival ensembles will be viewed, as well as long and short blocks with mansions of great variety and aesthetic distinction. .

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] New York City, as always, is in a deep, unrelenting housing crisis. During this walk — which covers the Lower East Side — we will look at various housing models New York City experimented with during the 20th century, from public housing (a model that would have been successful with consistent federal funding), to limited equity co-operatives, to Mitchell Lama developments. We’ll consider how these models, most of which remove market pressures from housing, could be adapted to meet the city’s current housing needs, and talk about the growing movement for social housing in New York. This tour, which will last approximately 2 hours, will be led by Katelin Penner, a writer and urban planner working in New York City.

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. Fall 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.

HONORING Betsy Smith | Rick Cotton | Richard Olcott

[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. Fall 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] 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. Fall 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] Back by popular demand! This tour sold out quickly when it premiered in May, so we're bringing it back! Once a busy turn-of-the-20th-century port, the Hudson waterfront fell into disrepair by the 1970s before being reimagined in the 1990s as a destination for New Yorkers and visitors. This tour with Ginny Poleman explores the 1910 Chelsea Piers—once the Titanic’s planned arrival point, and now a sports and media complex —then follows Hudson River Park stopping at the revitalized Pier 57, Little Island (2021), Gansevoort Peninsula, and a look at an 1970s example of adaptive reuse, the 1898 Bell Laboratories to the Westbeth Artists Housing.

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] In the early twentieth century, Union Square and Madison Square attracted some of Manhattan's most distinctive skyscrapers. While some of these trendsetting towers are deservedly quite famous, such as the Flatiron and Metropolitan Life Buildings, others are less known and deserve more consideration, including impressive works by architect John Edelmann, friend and mentor of Louis Sullivan, as well as Warren & Wetmore, Bruce Price, and Cass Gilbert.

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. Fall 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] Despite its humble beginnings as Brooklyn’s northernmost village, Williamsburg is now known for its vibrant food, music, and art scene. On this tour with Zack Rhodes, we will explore the Northside of Williamsburg, where we will learn about acts of heroism, visit the most famous brewery in New York, and explore a park named after a member of the Stonewall uprising. Through this tour we will see how Williamsburg many different religious and ethnic groups called the neighborhood home, and created educational institutions, religious buildings, and businesses to make it their own.!

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] Cast-iron architecture began as a mid-19th-century cheap imitation of stone, in which the glories of the world's past could be offered in modern times in mass-produced, ready-to-build versions. But cast-iron soon developed into a remarkable technology expressive of the industrial revolution, capable of entirely new architectural effects. SoHo today includes the world's largest collection of such buildings. Threatened by a proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway, SoHo was rescued from near obliteration in 1973 by designation as one of the city's earliest historic districts. This tour with Anthony W. Robins, former Landmarks Preservation Commission Survey Director, considers the district's original architecture as well as new Commission-approved additions.

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. Fall 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] 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. Fall 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] New York is the art capital of the world! The best way to explore the latest trends in contemporary art, whether brand new or newly appreciated, is roaming the art galleries in NYC. On this tour of Chelsea galleries with art historian Sylvia Laudien-Meo, we will explore a selection of the most interesting works on view. Artists always find intriguing way to inspire us with thought provoking works, fascinating practices and techniques, beautiful creations, broadening perspectives on life. We will have the opportunity to discuss the works presented as a group at the end of our tour. This is an enhanced price, limited capacity tour and will be offered at 11 AM and again at 2 PM.

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] New York is the art capital of the world! The best way to explore the latest trends in contemporary art, whether brand new or newly appreciated, is roaming the art galleries in NYC. On this tour of Chelsea galleries with art historian Sylvia Laudien-Meo, we will explore a selection of the most interesting works on view. Artists always find intriguing way to inspire us with thought provoking works, fascinating practices and techniques, beautiful creations, broadening perspectives on life. We will have the opportunity to discuss the works presented as a group at the end of our tour. This is an enhanced price, limited capacity tour and will be offered at 11 AM and again at 2 PM.

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, in collaboration with the NYC chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA-NY), invites you on a guided tour of three of NYC's iconic Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS). Hear directly from the visionary landscape architects who designed them as they share the stories, design ideas, and impact of these celebrated public spaces. Featured landscape architects include Tom Balsley, Michelle Delk, Julia Gold, and Ken Smith.

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. Fall 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.

[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. Fall 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] Bedford Stuyvesant's rich and storied history from the Colonial era forward makes it one of Brooklyn's most interesting neighborhoods, with an impressive cast of characters. Anchoring that history is some of the city's finest residential architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With historians Suzanne Spellen and Morgan Munsey, we will see the works of some of Brooklyn's finest architects, their row houses, apartment buildings, mansions, schools and churches. You'll also learn about the history and culture of the largest African-American community in New York City, a history that is hundreds of years in the making. Central Brooklyn is the borough's heart. Come see what makes it beat.

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. Fall 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] Bronx native and tour guide Alexandra Maruri has been leading tours of the South Bronx for MAS for a long time, and she has seen a lot of changes, especially the recent hi-rise residential architecture along the waterfront. The neighborhoods of Port Morris and Mott Haven are rich in history and in particular architecture history, and Alexandra knows it in meticulous detail. We'll visit sites of the early iron works, piano factories, and ice houses, and see how historic architecture can be creatively re-used and not demolished. Houses of worship, rowhouses and new small businesses will round out our journey of this vibrant urban landscape.

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. Fall 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] 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. Fall 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] The flower district has faded, but many fascinating architectural gems survive. Join Matt Postal for a walk through the West 20s (and 30th Street), viewing one of Manhattan’s earliest surviving public schools (1854), the row houses that became Tin Pan Alley, and a castle-like Tenderloin-era police precinct by R. Thomas Short. Particular attention will be paid to 20th century buildings associated with the “needle trades,” such as a landmarked loft building called Fox Hall, the Lefcourt Clothing Center, a WPA school with display windows and surrealist mosaics,and the still-evolving campus of the Fashion Institute of Technology, containing an intriguing mix of mid-century modern designs, as well as a stylish new academic building by ShoP Architects.

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 walk with Anthony W. Robins through the east side of Midtown South includes an unusual collection of buildings, each different from the next. We have a surprising modernist apartment building among the genteel town houses of Murray Hill; Ely Jacques Kahn’s most impressive office building (Two Park Avenue, and another Kahn building that’s no slouch); a work by Edgar Brandt, the great French iron master; the iconic Empire State Building; an incomplete attempt by Metropolitan Life to capture the Empire State Building’s “world’s tallest” title; and George and Edward Blum’s Gramercy House, with some of the most enjoyable Art Deco terra-cotta ornament 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.