Well, once again I realize that I have been truly neglectful of this little project, my blog. In fact, I haven't updated since the very end of May, and I have all of June and July to get written and posted. Since I went to the multi-family capital of America this weekend for a visit and took my trusty little camera with me, you, my dear readers, can have some visual treats.
Tudor City
First off we have Tudor City, once owned by Husband to the Diva, Harry Helmsley, who got into quite a bit of trouble trying to redevelop it before selling. I'll update with further information, but briefly, it was built in the 1920s, on the eastern edge of Midtown Manhattan. It is literally directly across the street from the UN (as in United Nations) however, when it was designed, there was no Congress of Nations or other body on that site (well, bodies, not the governmental kind, or even human, but the edible kind) just docks and stockyards, hence the inward facing design.
It was quite a lovely space, with a large garden with tall, mature tree's making the Neo-Gothic (Tudorbethan or Jacobethan) towers all the more surreal when seen through the leafy canopy. At ground level the arboreal splender appears to be a modestly scaled, nicely detailed space, however the penthouse levels above do make a dramatic impression when viewed from below in typical Manhattan fashion (nearly all of my photos were in portrait mode from the verticality of it all - at least Lower Manhattan and Midtown.
Another shot looking upwards. The tops of the buildings are really magnificent against the cloudy sky with rain pouring down. 
A view of the central courtyard, more of a garden than a park. The undeveloped area was a big bone of contention when H. Helmsley owned Tudor City.
A parting glance. The last shot shows one of the more modest building tops.
2 comments:
I love the slight mood of the photos and darkness quality make it very Tudor-esque. LOL!
Thanks! It was really a dreary day, my feet were soaked to the bone and were wet until nine o'clock thanks to being stuck on the tarmac at Midway for an hour and a half after our late flight landed right on the nose, on the dot on time and then no gate was available.
New York City, I think, so far, looks great on grey days.
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