From the Financial District to the Bronx, 15 Art Deco structures not to miss

New York City is by no means a place with a unified architectural style, and that’s one of the things that makes it so darn beautiful. But some of the city’s most iconic structures do share a common theme: Art Deco design, found in the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings, to name just two.

In his book New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture, Anthony W. Robins defines the fluid style that’s given character to some of the city’s most beloved structures: “It is flowery and it is zigzag; it is intimate and it is monolithic; it is abstract and it is figurative; it is Roaring Twenties Extravagant and it is Depression-era cheap.”

What all does that boil down to? Below, we’ve mapped some of the city’s most notable buildings exemplifying the beloved architectural style.