Phipps Garden Apartments I
38-20 52nd Street | also 50-01 39th Avenue | Sunnyside | built 1931
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 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.
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