Phipps Garden Apartments I

38-20 52nd Street | also 50-01 39th Avenue | Sunnyside | built 1931

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1931

    The 52nd Street side of Phipps Garden Apartments I steps down the hillside under the number 3820

    The east façade of Phipps Garden Apartments I runs 28 bays along 52nd Street and is symmetrical except where the ground slopes: its northernmost ten bays are four stories with no basement. Like the other street fronts it has two corridor entrances to the courtyard, decorative brick parapets and a historic metal sign, here reading 3820, above the central door.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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