Walking Tour: Mid-Century Modernism Along Manhattan's 53rd Street

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The walk follows 53rd Street from Third to Sixth Avenue, a corridor the guide frames as a benchmark for the city's 1961 Zoning Resolution rewrite of the original 1916 code. Stops include Lever House, the CBS Building, the open Seagram Building plaza, and the pocket-sized Paley Park, tracing how postwar zoning pushed office towers toward open-space and setback requirements.