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DEVELOPED BY the Fred F. French real-estate company, Tudor City was the first residential skyscraper enclave in the world. Ensconced on a naturally occurring bluff overlooking what was then New York’s slaughterhouse district, the five-acre site comprises seven apartment buildings, with four 10-story apartments flanking a phalanx of three central 22-story towers on the east side. The Woodstock Tower, an apartment hotel on East 42nd Street, is the tallest at 32 stories. Overall, the complex was built to house 2,200 families, but the scale is right; the buildings are neither overwhelmingly tall, nor are there too many of them.
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(2005). Tudor City. In: Manhattan Skyscrapers. Princeton Archit.Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-56898-652-1_20
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