Phipps Garden Apartments
Phipps Garden Apartments is an apartment complex in
Henry Wright of Sunnyside Gardens.[1] It is located on 39th Avenue between 50th and 52nd Streets, adjacent to Sunnyside Gardens Park and Sunnyside Yard. Designed by Clarence Stein,[2] The brick buildings feature intricate brick work and curved steel fire escapes. The buildings enclose a landscaped courtyard by landscape architect Marjorie Sewell Cautley
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A second, northern group of buildings was built between the first units and the Sunnyside Yard railroad tracks to the north in the late 1930s. Originally, there was a children's playground across the street, also designed by Cautley, but Phipps closed it by the 1990s. In 2007, the
Sunnyside Gardens Historic District.[3]
References
- ISBN 9780786461646. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ISBN 9780231062978. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ^ "Sunnyside Gardens Designation Report" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. June 26, 2007. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
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