30 July 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Living, Working, Building, New York City
Reading Time: 17 minutesU.N. Secretariat Building and Dag Hammarskjoeld Library behind Prospect and Tudor Towers
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Tudor City is an
apartment complex located on the southern edge of
Turtle Bay on the
East Side of
Manhattan in
New York City, near Turtle Bay’s border with
Murray Hill. It lies on a low cliff, which is east of
Second Avenue between 40th and 43rd Streets and overlooks
First Avenue. Construction commenced in 1926, making it the first
residential skyscraper complex in the world. Tudor City was one of the first, largest, and most important examples of a planned middle-class residential community in New York City. It is named for its
Tudor Revival architecture.
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