Karen

I am going to New York for 5 days in March and am interested in seeing the inside of the Chrysler Building. On anything I have read on the subject it does not mention opening hours and prices etc, like normal tourist attractions.I am wondering if it is possible to visit it.PS Thank you Howard for your prompt reply to my previous question.

annie

I work two blocks from the Chrysler Building. I would believe that it is open 24 hours because there is a train station underground.

annie

I work two blocks away from the Chrysler building and it is generally open from 9-7. I would think the lobby would stay open 24 hours being that there is a train station under the building.

Howard

Karen, how can I not respond after your nice comment! Unfortunately, I can only be of limited help. The Chrysler Building is indeed a beautiful building. However, all I've seen of it are the exterior (naturally) and the beautiful lobby and the elevators, which indeed are worth seeing! Hopefully, someone else has better info on what else there is to see.

Caitlin

Karen, I'm afraid the reason you haven't found the info you would for a "normal tourist attraction" is that the Chrysler Building isn't one! As far as I can tell (and I did a little search just to confirm), there are no commercial tours of the building, which is an office building and doesn't have an observation deck or anything like that. Of course, anyone can visit the lobby. The only way I can see for you to pursue this and make sure is to try and look up, in a New York directory, the number of the building's management or information office and ask them if there's a way of seeing it. I have a sneaking suspicion, though, that like the Empire State Building and WTC, beyond the lobby and other public areas, it's probably kind of boring--just offices. Certainly one way to find out more about the building, its history, etc., is to do a search (on a search engine like google.com) for "Art Deco New York."

John

On my last trip to NYC I asked the Chrysler Building information desk if there were public tours or any observation facilities. No and no. Maybe that will change after the big renovation program is complete, whenever. The lobby and elevator doors are cool, though.

rqf

As noted in other posts there are no tours of the building. You are free to enter the lobby and walk around. The architecture is art deco and the building was NYC's first skyscraper.

Tom

The Chrysler Building, built in the late 1920's, was hardly New York's first skyscraper. Steel structured multi-story buildings began appearing on the New York skyline in the end of the 19th century. Buildings like the Flatiron, Woolworth, and Park Row Buildings all predate the Chrysler Building.

rqf

The "Official NYC Guide' put out by the Convention and Visitor's Bureau calls it "New York City's first skyscraper". I guess it comes down to how you define "skyscraper". I guess when the Flatiron building was built it was probably called a skyscraper. No one would call it that today. The same probably goes for the Woolworth building as well.