These and hundreds of others built in the 1920s and '30s helped create the image of New York City as the world's Modern Metropolis. In New York, the Art Deco style evolved through a series of Manhattan skyscrapers into the city's chief architectural language. Following a massive reawakening of interest in them during the 1970s, New York's Deco buildings today survive as prized remnants of a distant yet modern past that still help define the city's visual identity. This site is growing, a piece at a time.
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Check back from time to time and you'll find more information available. Includes brief descriptions of what you'll find when you click. An alphabetical list, by borough, with architects and dates. The Architects Speak Excerpts from interviews with New York architects active in the 1920s and 1930s.