Phipps Houses
243 West 63rd Street | also 241 West 63rd Street | Lincoln Square | built 1907
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1922
Thelonious Monk's family moves into the Phipps Houses on West 63rd Street
Monk's family moved to San Juan Hill in 1922, and he lived in an apartment in this Phipps Houses building. His kitchen held a piano where he invited musicians to play with him; saxophonist Sonny Rollins recalled going to Monk's house every day after school to practice with his band. The building is one of the few early structures in Lincoln Square still standing after the neighborhood was cleared.
Source: lincolncenter.org
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