Today is the centennial of the birth of Art Deco, the streamlined Jazz Age style that defined the interwar years. Art Deco profoundly shaped our city, with many of our most beloved landmarks embodying its eye-catching aesthetic. That includes everything from the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings to Rockefeller Center and the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and neighborhoods from the Grand Concourse in the Bronx to Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn to Washington Heights and Central Park West.

The style made an impact in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, with some of the city’s greatest Deco architects building striking structures here, including Emery Roth, Ralph Walker, Harvey Wiley Corbett, Schwartz & Gross, Horace Ginsberg, and Rosario Candela. Many more Deco designs by lesser-known figures nevertheless capture the kinetic zeitgeist of the era.

You can explore it all with our new Art Deco StoryMap, which provides an overview of Art Deco and its history in New York, then zooms in on nearly every structure incorporating the style in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. You’ll find familiar landmarks and anonymous edifices; grand palaces and simple structures; hotels and apartment houses; parking garages and prisons; post offices and power stations; and more. 

Explore all our maps HERE.