This Midtown Manhattan walking tour includes every aspect of the built environment: the city's historical move uptown, public and private works of art and architecture. This tour is unique for the underground passages, tunnels and POPS (privately-owned-public-places) that link these curated blocks of the city's most interesting and engaging spaces.
We discuss zoning laws and POPS (privately-owned-public- spaces) at Worldwide Plaza.
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At the Citizen Hotel in tims Square we discuss the history of New York and its move uptown. In the hotel lobby we see works by Julien Opie
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787 Axa Equitable (now, BNP Paribas). Here we deconstruct a Roy Lichtenstein mural, then head out back to more works of art and 6 1/2 Avenue, a quirk of zoning and creative urban planning.
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Skyscraper Alley is the nickname for these buildings by Wallace Harrison, part of the consortium of architects who built rockefeller Center.
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We pass through Rockefeller Center and along the way discuss the fascinating, inordinate history, incuding: Columbia University, holdouts, Alexander Hamilton, Diego Rivera, radio and televison, the Rockefellers themselves , the architectural genius of Raymod Hood, and an incredible array of art. One key to understanding the hisotry of Modern architecture is in Rockefeller Center's program of art, not ornament, in its architecture (thoguh we'll see where John. D. Rockefeller Jr. won out over his architects and got a bit of ornament in his buildings)
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You will always remember the view up the escalator to behold St. Patrick's Cathdrel across the Street. We admire one of New York's most beautiful spaces, the last room in Rockefeller Center before heading out on Fifth Avenue. Becuase they are long gone, pictures bring back the era when Venderbilt manisons stretched from this part of Fifth Avenue up to Central Park.
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We discuss the history of Fifth Avenue and its periods of development.
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This building represents the height of Modern architecture
we put it in context with the development of the rest of the block.
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There's a tone of hiostry to talk about here: Grand Central Terminal, the grid, the transformation of Park Avenue, twice! And the current "history" underway.
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The tour ends with two of New York's most prized POPS that are across the street from each other: 550 Madison and the IBM building's POPS.
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We meet in front of the Food Emporium supermarket on the northeast corner of 49th Street and 8th Avenue.
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