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位于第1大道和第2大道,及东40街和44街之间的Tudor City (都铎城)是一个充满都铎王朝-哥特风格,自给自足的社区. (具体信息如下, 更需要有牛人出来帮大伙翻译了)
New York's Tudor city historic district is considered a city within a city. This apartment complex overlooking the East River at 42nd Street was a pioneering venture in urban renewal.
Tudor City is bounded by First Avenue, East 44th Street, Second Avenue, and East 40th Street. It includes 12 buildings, 3,000 apartments, 600 hotel rooms, private parks, restaurants, shops, and a post office. The buildings, ranging in height from ten to 32 stories, are oriented inward to the private open spaces of the complex, giving an unusual sense of privacy and repose in busy Midtown Manhattan. Built as rental units, the apartments today are cooperatively owned and house about 5,000 residents.
Unfortunately, East River and United Nations views are lost, as the east sides of the buildings were built with almost no windows, to blank out the tenement neighborhood that existed there in the 1920s. Tudor City was a pioneering urban development project and, along with its, elegant Tudor Revival architecture and uniquely self-contained service functions, this earned its designation as a New York City Landmark in 1988. Architects Fred French and H. Douglas Ives designed the residential city. It took three years, 1925-1928, to build it at a cost of $25 million.
Forty-second Street, which runs through a tunnel beneath Tudor City, forms the dividing line between two old neighborhoods called Kip's Bay, after a farm owned by Jacobus Kip, and Turtle Bay, settled in 1677 by the De Voor family. A creek called the Saw Kill ran between the De Voor and Kip farms to the East River. The eastern opening was shaped like a Turtle.
In the mid-19th century the eastern end of 42nd Street was a shantytown in a location known as Dutch Hill. About a thousand squatters lived in one-room shacks there until the 1870s when the city bulldozed them and had developers build tenement buildings and brownstones in their place. The East River was lined with stockyards, breweries, tanneries, slaughterhouses and abattoirs, with the accompanying filth and odor.
The cliff upon which Tudor City sits became known in the 1880s as Corcoran's Bluff or Corcoran's Roost, named for a lawless gang called Corcoran's Roosters who occupied a brownstone at 317 East 40th Street. By the 1890s, the east end of the Forties was known as Abattoir Center.
Tudor City was a deliberate attempt to introduce respectability and middle class values into what had become a slum by the 1920s. The slaughtering district was cleared in the 1940s to make way for the United Nations. But by then, Tudor City had already had its back turned to the East River for more than a decade.
There are many architectural references in the Tudor City design to English cottages. Gargoyles are very much in evidence along the rooflines. The several buildings that make up the complex have distinctive decorative styles and the Tudor Revival detail has been retained.
Hardwick Hall has an actual replica of a castle at its penthouse level. Woodstock Tower is noted for its series of stepped terraces with commanding views of the river and the city. Windsor Tower is noted for ornate stonework at its entrance and an elegantly turned out lobby.
Tudor Tower has a hotel style front desk with a stained glass windowed sitting room in the adjacent lobby. Prospect Tower's lobby has plaster art decorating its vaulted ceiling and a slate floor. Its lobby sitting room also has stained glass windows and a working fireplace. The Essex House lobby is lit in daytime by a stained glass skylight. Some of the stained glass used throughout the complex illustrates scenes of New York history.
The single addition to French's original plan is Tudor Gardens, which dates from the 1950s. |
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