Building 42nd Street — A Chronicle

This is a hybrid program, in-person in the gallery and online. Members receive priority registration for the in-person program by emailing programs@skyscraper.org with the names of all guests.

There are three great streets in Manhattan: Broadway, Fifth Avenue, and 42nd Street. Carol Herselle Krinsky will speak about the last of these, highlighting stories featured in her new, free, online book, Building 42nd Street: A Chronicle. Her in-person talk will take us from colonial times to the present, touching on nineteenth-century structures such as the Egyptian Revival reservoir and Crystal Palace, early versions of Grand Central, modest and lavish hotels, and commercial buildings from skyscrapers to bonbon shops. Among the vast urban array of 42nd Street, Professor Krinsky will illustrate tenements, theaters, transportation facilities, lobster palaces and cafeterias, automats, a peep show, lost churches, and a private club. Of course she'll include the greatest public library in the Americas. 

To register for this FREE program, click on the link above to RSVP. You will be redirected to Ticketstripe to reserve your seat in the gallery. Members receive priority registration by emailing programs@skyscraper.org with the names of all guests. Want to become member? Click here! The program will also be livestreamed to the Skyscraper Museum YouTube channel. You do NOT need to register for the livestream.

Carol H. Krinsky

Carol H. Krinsky is Professor Emerita of Art History at New York University where she taught for fifty-nine years. When she wasn't teaching, she was writing five other books, including Rockefeller Center, Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Synagogues of Europe, and Contemporary Native American Architecture. Dr. Krinsky received the Distinguished Teaching of Art History award from the College Art Association, similar awards at NYU, and is a past President of the Society of Architectural Historians.