The Most Beautiful Block in the World, Christopher Gray, lecturer May 7, 2008

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Christopher Gray, architectural historian, writer, the weekly “Streetscapes” column in The New York Times

In 1939, Fortune magazine noted “there is no one street of which it can be said: here live the great,” but East 70th might be the exception. From Fifth to Third Avenues, it stretches half a mile across the ridge of Lenox Hill, with a string of opulent architecture— from Henry Frick’s art palace at Fifth Avenue to Daniel Reid’s coossal limestone stable near Third.

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