“Tudor City belongs firmly in the 20th century. This quiet ‘city within the city’ built on a bluff west of First Avenue between 41st and 43rd Streets consists of 13 residential buildings, almost all reflecting the Tudor Revival style popular in the 1920s. In 1925, Tudor City’s developer, Fred French, bought up five acres of land and
former middle class brownstones in the neighborhood—brownstones which by that time had been turned into tenements or carved into apartments, according to a
1926 New York Times story. He bulldozed them to revitalize an area that in the early 1900s had become a slum, putting up modern new ‘efficiency’ units that appealed to young professionals working in Midtown. ...”
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