CONTEMPORARY NY
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Tudor City

architect

Fred F. French & Co., H. Douglas Ives 

location

East 40th to East 43rd Streets, bet. First and Second Aves.

date

1925-8

style

Historicist  Neo-Gothic

construction

Steel frame, brick cladding with stone trim

type

Apartment Building
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

notes

A private effort to revitalize a former slum, Tudor City was built as a new residential area to serve the thriving commercial district around Grand Central Terminal. The complex consists of 12 buildings containing 3,000 housing units, 600 hotel rooms and retail spaces arranged around gardens and raised on a platform to isolate it from the busy activity of Midtown Manhattan.

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