Phipps Garden Apartments I

38-19 50th Street | also 50-01 39th Avenue | Sunnyside | built 1931

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1931
September 1
The first tenants move into Phipps Garden Apartments, paying $31 to $80 a month
The complex opened to its first tenants on September 1, 1931. Its 22 buildings held 344 families in apartments of one and a half to five rooms, set around a garden of flowering shrubs. Rents at the start ranged from $31 to $80 a month.
Source: qchron.com
1931
The 50th Street wing of Phipps Garden Apartments I carries the house number 3819
Phipps Garden Apartments I shows a symmetrical brick front of 28 bays to 50th Street, four and six stories tall and highest at its center. Two through-building corridors lead into the interior garden court, and a historic metal sign reading 3819 survives above the central door. The brickwork mixes canted and basket-weave patterned sections, header-bond string courses, corbels and a decorative parapet.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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