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Monday, September 2, 2013

Tudor Farms store

There are a number of small businesses up on escarpment at Tudor City,

Charming as this place looks, it gets very mixed reviews...

Tudor Farm

2.5 star rating
7 reviews Rating Details
Category: Grocery  [Edit]
45 Tudor City Pl
(between 42nd St & 43rd St)
New York, NY 10017
Neighborhood: Midtown East
(212) 949-6257
Nearest Transit Station:
Grand Central - 42 St. (7, 7X)
Grand Central - 42 St. (4, 5, 6, 6X)
Price Range:
$$
Accepts Credit Cards:
Yes
Parking:
Street
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7 reviews in English

  • Review from

    Photo of Ryan F.
    Manhattan, NY
    10/24/2012 2 photos 23 check-ins here
    Because I sometimes park my car in Tudor City in the evenings, I've been here a bunch of times when returning the next morning.  I stick to my usual breakfast sandwiches, gum, and other basic packaged sundries, so can't comment on anything outside that.  I don't do any of my "real" grocery shopping here because I live on 2nd ave, much closer to larger, and better options.

    I don't have any complaints, but delis & convenience stores like these are a dime a dozen, and Tudor Farm falls right in the middle of my spectrum...Decent selection, mediocre interior/design, but friendly staff.

  • Review from

    Photo of Jiovan M.
    • 46 friends
    • 8 reviews
    Manhattan, NY
    11/25/2012 1 check-in here
    Good people & convenient.

  • Review from

    Photo of Jeremy K.
    • 25 friends
    • 38 reviews
    New York, NY
    10/7/2012
    This deli/convenience store is filthy.  I don't think anything is kept at the proper temperature.  If you want a reason to be home from work, come get a chicken sandwich at tudor farms.....you just might get salmonella. The only thing I will buy here is a pack of trident.  Good luck to you!

  • Review from

    Photo of Vanessa V.
    • 119 friends
    • 1004 reviews
    Portsmouth, NH
    8/5/2008 First to Review
    i'm actually kind of surprised that nobody has reviewed this place yet. it's one of two small groceries that services the tudor city community, not including a gristedes on 2nd ave. the other grocery is in 5 tudor city and doesn't have a storefront, so i'm sure not a lot of people know about it. tudor farm is much bigger and pretty much carries all your necessary grocery products. the front half of the store has generic deli-type by-the-pound prepared food, and the back has snacks, crackers, cleaning supplies, etc. what's more impressive is the drink selection-- the fridge wraps around almost the entire store, so they have more than just the regular coca cola products.

    overall i'd give this place 3.5 stars-- more than average but not great. they have a small selection of pretty much anything you need, but no frills. prices are that of any small grocery-- more expensive than its nearby gristedes counterpart, but not so outrageous that you'd prefer to shop there.

    if you get the prepared food, there is an excess of beautiful parks in the area to eat your lunch: the tudor gardens, of course, but you can also take the spiraling stairs down to 1st ave and look at the oppressive glass faced UN, or walk to the intersection of tudor city pl and 41st and sit on the benches overlooking long island city. this last one is sort of time-sensitive, though, because there's a huge skyscraper going up on that block, so take advantage while you can.

  • Review from

    Photo of Adam V.
    • 27 friends
    • 23 reviews
    New York, NY
    3/4/2011 2 check-ins here
    Open 24 hours for snacks and beer.  Decent selection of goodies.

  • Review from

    Photo of Kia M.
    • 0 friends
    • 5 reviews
    Manhattan, NY
    10/21/2012
    Yes they're open 24/7 and deliver at all times but they don't know what your asking for and the old Asian lady is an ass hole she hangs up on me 3 out of 5 times I'm placing an order also most items are over priced
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Tudor City History

Just once again, think I will do history of whole Tudor City complexin brief form--

 This from the internet "A View of  Cities"  site should do
Rating

55 votes
Links
Tudor City is a historic district in Midtown Manhattan developed in the 1920s by Fred F. French. It comprises 12 buildings in Tudor style.
In the 1920s, the Fred F. French company started to buy lots on the east side of Midtown Manhattan for a large housing project.
Tudor City
The run-down area consisted mostly of tenements and brownhouses, bordered on the east by a gas company, breweries and slaughterhouses, causing filth and an unbearable smell.

Tudor City
In 1925 Fred F French - also known for the Fred F. French Building and Knickerbocker village - started construction of what he called 'The largest project in Midtown'. The project was named Tudor City.
Completed in 1928, it consisted of 12 apartment
Tudor City, New York City
Tudor City
buildings containing 3000 housing units and 600 hotel rooms. The design by the architect H. Douglas Ives and his team was based heavily on the Tudor Style, an architectural style prevalent during the Tudor Dynasty. Characteristic for this style is the brickwork and the application of fine intricate stonework.

Attracting the Middle Class
In an effort to attract part of the middle class that had moved to suburban areas, the buildings featured many amenities and was well ahead of its time. It also boasted two private gardens in the center.
In order to shield the apartments from the slaughterhouses on the east side, the buildings all face inwards towards the parks and have very few windows on the east side.
Entrance to apartments at Tudor City, New York City
Apartment Entrance
The slaughterhouses were eventually demolished in the 1940s to make way for the United Nations Headquarters.

Tudor City Today
Tudor City currently houses about 5000 people and most of the apartments and hotel rooms are now co-operative housing projects. It is based on a plateau that seems to isolate it from the rest of Midtown, creating a quiet refuge from hectic Manhattan.

A Historic District
The area became a historic district May 17, 1988. It comprises an area from 40th street to 43rd street between First and Second Ave.

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Tudor City--Labor Day 2013

I have covered Tudor City a couple of times before, just thought I would do an update...

Below: Walk through main upper portion of Tudor City escarpment where the parks are and the views of 42nd Street in the late afternoon haze ( Chrysler Bldg barely visible), and, to the East, the United Nations.

Don't seem to be any tourists about today, just locals...

Summer flowers are all gone in Tudor City parks now..but who knows what they might have planted that may bloom yet before the cold weather comes...they keep those gardens in awfully good shape.

In fact, when a friend of mine visited from Chicago two years ago, he hung out in the Tudor City Park before walking down to the coffee shop where we were to meet. He is a set designer and tells me he just has a  natural affinity for anyplace that looks like a stage set! 

The only time Tudor City looks like a stage set to me is around Christmas time, when they have all their little decorative touches in place...



First I am going to see if there is anything especially new at Tudor City, and , if not, maybe just run an edited version of the Wikipedia article on it. 

Some of the really early history of the place is pretty fascinating, I remember that...everyone though this guy French was nuts when he built Tudor City over in the shadow of what used to be  I believe a power plant and slaughterhouses or something at the East River ( all cleared after World War II to be the site for the United Nations). When Tudor City was built, therefore, there were no scenic views to the East at all...and the tall buildings of Long Island City across the river have just come in the last 20 years, especially the last seven or eight. 

Well, here are some upcoming events


Tudor City Greens
Upcoming Activities Schedule 2013
    
Concert to Benefit Tudor City Greens #4
Weds., Sept. 11 - 6:30 p.m.
South Park
This will be a very special tribute concert: “I HEAR AMERICA SINGING – Songs of Hope, Joy& Inspiration,” and will feature professional performers from Broadway and the New York City cabaret, and jazz scene. On this important day of remembrance, the spirit of New York and America will be celebrated with a healing and uplifting concert. The concert will feature 3 special group numbers, including a powerful version of AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, arranged especially for this concert by CFCG Musical Director, Kenneth Gartman.
 Halloween - Trick or Treat!Thursday, October 31st - 6:30 pmSouth Park
Chanukkah CelebrationWednesday, November 27th - 6:30 pmNorth Park
Holiday DecoratingSaturday, November 30th - 11 amBoth Parks
Christmas Tree lightingWednesday, December 4th - 6:30 pmSouth Park

 
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis interviews; John. F. Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage"

Some younger person recently posted something on Google Plus along the lines of " who the f$ck was John F. Kennedy"? To which I posted a short and sardonic reply...all too aware how quickly history flashes by and how, for instance, young college students today have never known a world without AIDS and are clueless to  many simple things that were part and parcel of their parents' young lives..

Recent interviews with Jackie Kennedy Onassis have been the subject of recent BBC broadcasts, and, as usual,  a comment or two taken out of context (or even in context) can sound sort of sensational ( apparently Martin Luther King Jr. was drunk at John F. Kennedy's funeral and made loud derisive remarks at the time about the service, for which Jackie never forgave him. And so on).

There are also her fascinating memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which was the closest the world came to nuclear Armageddon in the Twentieth Century and avoided it only because Nikita Khrushchev, a survivor of the horrors of WWII in Russia, could not bear to face another massive upheaval of the life of the world and also inflicting incredible amounts of new suffering on the then-Soviet people who were still reeling from both the earlier war and the reign of terror of Josef Stalin...(At the time, it was seen as a face-off in which Khrushchev "blinked first'...also witnesses in Cuba later testified that Fidel Castro was actually ready to have a nuclear war and his kind of insane anti-American fanaticism totally shocked Khrushchev).

Leaving Jackie aside for a moment, ( hard to do, granted what a life she had) I am inspired tonight just to go back to John F. Kennedy's book "Profiles in Courage," which had a profound impact on me when I first read it ages and ages ago --the book had been around for some time before I got to it, but it was still a revelation to me then.

I have just re-read a summary of the book and find it fascinating what I have remembered and what I have forgotten.

Here is the summary from an internet site of the U.S. Senate:

Profiles in Courage
John F. Kennedy (1956)



John Kennedy had long been interested in the topic of political courage, beginning with his senior thesis at Harvard. The thesis, later published as Why England Slept, was a study of the failure of British political leaders in the 1930s to oppose popular resistance to rearming, leaving the country ill-prepared for World War II. Kennedy’s election to the House in 1946 and the Senate in 1952 gave him personal experience in dealing with the conflicting pressures that legislators face. When Kennedy took a leave of absence from the Senate in 1954 to recover from back surgery, it gave him the opportunity to study the topic of political courage. The project resulted in the publication of Profiles in Courage, which focuses on the careers of eight Senators whom Kennedy felt had shown great courage under enormous pressure from their parties and their constituents. His own battles with physical pain and his experiences in World War II as a PT boat commander also gave him inspiration.
The subjects of Profiles in Courage  are John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston, Edmund G. Ross, Lucius Lamar, George Norris, and Robert A. Taft. Each chapter from the book is summarized below.



A portrait of John Qunicy Adams
John Quincy Adams came to the Senate as a Massachusetts Federalist in 1803.  He quickly broke with his party, however, when he was the sole Federalist to vote in favor of the Louisiana Purchase. Adams continued voting against his party, but it was not until 1807 that the final split between Adams and the Federalists occurred.  That year, Thomas Jefferson called upon Congress to enact an embargo against Great Britain to shut off international trade to retaliate against British aggression towards American merchant ships. The embargo would have had a disastrous effect upon the economy of Massachusetts. Adams agreed with Jefferson and helped steer the embargo bill to its enactment into law. This was in direct opposition to the Federalists, who had been following a philosophy of appeasement towards the British. A storm of protest ensued and Adams resigned from his seat in 1808.
Daniel Webster by James Henry Wright
Daniel Webster was a Massachusetts Senator (Whig) and one of the most distinguished members in Senate history. His trial by fire began in 1850 when he agreed to help Henry Clay of Kentucky push through a compromise bill that would keep the Union together.  Webster’s famous “Seventh of March” speech in favor of Clay’s compromise bill asserted that slaveholders were entitled to property rights, that fugitive slave laws should be strengthened, and that the issue of slavery should be put aside in order to keep the Union together at all costs. The speech enraged his constituents and ended his career as a Senator, since Webster knew that his speech would make him unelectable in Massachusetts thereafter. On July 22, 1850, Webster resigned from the Senate to become secretary of state.
A portrait of Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Hart Benton, Senator from Missouri, was included in the book primarily for his actions in 1847-1849 against John C. Calhoun's resolutions to keep Congress from interfering with the introduction of slavery in new territories. Although Missouri was a slave-owning state, and Benton himself owned slaves, he was deeply opposed to the introduction of slavery into new territories. Benton was concerned that the issue was being exploited by Southern and Northern partisans and would be a barrier to Western expansion. Calhoun was successful in getting legislators from slave-owning states, including the rest of the Missouri delegation, to back his resolutions. Benton’s refusal to vote for Calhoun’s resolutions cost him the popularity he previously had in his state, and he was stripped of all of his committee memberships except Foreign Relations. In 1850, Benton was still opposed to the series of measures known as the “Great Compromise” and did not hesitate to make his feelings known in the strongest possible terms. However, Benton was constantly called out of order by Millard Fillmore, the presiding officer. On April 17, 1850, when Fillmore called Benton out of order again, debate became so heated that Benton was almost shot by Henry Foote of Mississippi. Benton was voted out of office in 1851, returned to Congress in 1853 as a Representative, but lost his seat in 1855 and spent the remaining years of his life fruitlessly seeking a return to public office. Although his uncompromising stand on prohibiting slavery in new territories ended his political career, the wisdom of Benton’s opinion was borne out a few years later and was one of the factors that kept Missouri from seceding from the Union.
A portrait of Sam Houston
Sam Houston earned his place in Profiles in Courage by his refusal to support the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. This bill repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and would have allowed the residents of territories from Iowa to the Rocky Mountains to decide the slavery issue themselves. A Southerner by birth and one of the first two Senators from Texas, Houston felt that the act would further divide the Union. He tangled with the powerful John C. Calhoun, saying that Calhoun was trying to destroy the Union by introducing the legislation. He was the sole Southern Democrat to vote against the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Houston’s constituents were furious and rumors of his political demise were rampant. Not one to engage in a defensive fight, Houston announced his plan to run for governor of Texas as an independent—while he was still in the Senate. Despite his oratorical gifts and sheer physical presence, the citizens of Texas did not forget his “anti-Southern” vote against the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Houston was defeated for the governorship and was dismissed from the Senate by the Texas legislature in 1857. However, two years later he was asked to come out of retirement to again run for governor of Texas, and his election was a major setback to Southern pro-slavery extremists. In February 1861, despite Houston’s valiant attempts to stop it, the Texas legislature voted to secede from the Union. His refusal to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederacy led to his ouster as governor in March 1861.

A portrait of Edmund Ross
Edmund Ross, a Kansas Republican, cast the deciding vote that ended the impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson. The proceedings began because doctrinaire “Radical Republicans,” then in control of the Senate, passed a Tenure of Office Act to prevent a president from firing cabinet members without Senate consent. This was done to try to stop Johnson from firing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. Johnson believed Stanton was a tool of the Radicals who wanted to establish a military dictatorship in the South. Johnson felt the wiser course would be to reconstruct the Confederate states back into the Union as quickly as possible without unnecessary military intervention, as Lincoln had intended. When Johnson fired Stanton, the impeachment began. The House voted for impeachment and the trial then moved to the Senate. As the trial went on it became clear that the Republicans had no intention of giving Johnson a fair trial; rather, their emphasis was on convincing enough Senators to find Johnson guilty. Ross was overheard saying that while he had no sympathy for Johnson, he would do his best to see that he was fairly tried. Because Ross had previously been such a partisan Republican, he became the principal target of abuse from the press, the public, and his fellow Republican legislators. Nonetheless, Ross voted against convicting Johnson, reasoning that if a president could be forced out of office by insufficient evidence that was based on partisan disagreement, the presidency would then be under the control of whatever congressional faction held sway. Ross’s action unleashed relentless criticism. Neither he nor any other Republican who voted to acquit Andrew Johnson was reelected to the Senate, and Ross and his family suffered ostracism and poverty upon their return to Kansas in 1871. Eventually, Ross was vindicated by the Supreme Court, which declared the Tenure of Office Act to be unconstitutional, and praised by the press and the public for having saved the country from dictatorship.
A portrait of Lucius Q.C. Lamar
Lucius Lamar, Democrat from Mississippi, gave a eulogy on the House floor as a freshman Representative in 1874 upon the death of Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. Sumner was hated by most Southerners because of his hatred of slavery and his vehemence in denouncing slaveholders. In 1856 Sumner was brutally caned on the Senate floor by Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina. Later in his career Sumner’s views towards the South became more moderate. Lamar’s eulogy, which praised Sumner’s desire for unity between North and South, was a sensation and many in the South felt it a betrayal. In 1876, Lamar was elected to the Senate and once again acted in opposition to his constituents and his party when he agreed to the findings of an election commission that gave the presidency to Republican Rutherford Hayes. The commission’s findings were controversial, but Lamar felt that acquiescing to them would stave off another sectional controversy that might have meant more bloodshed. He further alienated the people of Mississippi when he voted against “free silver” measures that would have enriched the state in the short run. However, Lamar kept his Senate seat until 1885, when he resigned to become secretary of the interior and finally a justice of the Supreme Court.
A portriat of George W. Norris
George Norris, a Republican from Nebraska, first came to national attention in 1910 as a young Representative. He introduced a reform resolution that would strip Speaker Joe Cannon of much of his power by taking away his authority to appoint committee members and their chairmen and by removing the Speaker from the Rules Committee. To everyone’s surprise, Norris was able to get enough votes to pass his resolution for a rule change, and the power of “Czar” Cannon began to wane. This move made him extremely unpopular with Cannon, as well as with some other members of the Nebraska delegation, and showed early on that Norris was not afraid to stand up to powerful individuals. In January 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to authorize him to arm American merchant ships, many of which had been searched and sunk although the United States was still officially neutral in the war at that time. Although Wilson’s request was immediately popular with the American public, Norris and Wisconsin Senator Robert La Follette fought against the measure. Norris was an isolationist and a pacifist who felt that Wilson’s bill was a ruse by big business to get the United States into the war in Europe, and believed Wilson was trying to stampede the public into pressuring the Senate to pass his bill and enter the war. La Follette and Norris filibustered the bill and kept it from passing, but their victory was short-lived: Wilson stated that executive power already included the right to arm ships without congressional approval. Norris was the only member of the Nebraska delegation to vote against passage of the bill and he was excoriated on every side. He wrote the governor of Nebraska and offered to resign from the Senate, saying that if the people of Nebraska no longer felt that he was representing them adequately, he should step down. Norris traveled throughout Nebraska to explain his views to his constituents, and in the end, the governor declared that he would not ask for a special election. Norris touched off a firestorm of criticism in 1928, when he, a “dry” Republican, backed Al Smith, a Catholic Democrat who was anti-Prohibition, for president rather than Herbert Hoover, the Republican candidate. Smith’s liberal views touched a chord in Norris, who felt that the only place for progressive Republicans like him was in the Smith camp, rather than with Hoover, whom Norris felt was owned by monopolistic power companies. Norris went on to serve in the Senate until his defeat for re-election in 1942.
Robert A. Taft by Rudolf Anton Bernatschke
Robert A Taft, the son of William Howard Taft, was known as “Mr. Republican”: a conservative’s conservative, with presidential aspirations. Taft made a speech at Kenyon College in October 1946 called “Equal Justice Under Law” in which he strongly opposed the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials that were just ending. The defendants were the architects of the Nazi regime who had been found guilty of waging a war of aggression and had been sentenced to death. To Taft, the defendants were being tried under ex post facto laws (laws that apply retroactively, especially those which criminalize an action that was legal when it was committed). These laws are expressly forbidden in the U.S. Constitution (Article I, section 9 and section 10). Taft viewed the Constitution as the foundation of the American system of justice and felt that discarding its principles in order to punish a defeated enemy out of vengeance was a grave wrong. Speaking out against the Nuremberg Trials seemed quixotic at best and unpatriotic at worst. He was pilloried in the press, by his constituents, by legal experts, and by his fellow Senators on both sides of the aisle. The fallout from the speech may have also played a small part in his unsuccessful presidential bid in 1948. However, Taft so strongly believed in the wisdom of the Constitution that speaking out was more important than his personal ambitions or popularity. Many years later, William O. Douglas of the Supreme Court agreed with Taft’s view that the Nuremberg Trials were an unconstitutional use of ex post facto laws.
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Sunday, September 1, 2013

New York Mayoral Elections-- Latest Articles--DeBlasio takes lead in Democratic Primary Polls (even though he is Boston Red Sox Fan)

Several sources have the same story lately, namely that Democrat Bill de Blasio is now taking a definite lead in the polls..

Following from Huffington Post

Bill De Blasio Surges Ahead In New York City Mayoral Race: Poll

The Huffington Post  |  By Posted:   |  Updated: 08/29/2013 1:54 am EDT
New York City public advocate Bill de Blasio has pulled further ahead in the New York City mayoral race, coming close to the 40 percent threshold he'd need to avoid a runoff in the Democratic primary, according to a poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University.

De Blasio took 36 percent among likely Democratic primary voters, by far the largest share of the vote any candidate has garnered in polling so far. New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and former city comptroller Bill Thompson trailed at 21 and 20 percent, respectively. Three other candidates, former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), city comptroller John Liu and former city councilmember Sal Albanese, each polled in the single digits.

If there is a runoff, de Blasio would lead Quinn, 59 percent to 30 percent, and Thompson, 52 percent to 36 percent.

Although de Blasio had stronger support among men than women, he led among voters of both genders. He also held a lead regardless of racial group, taking 38 percent among white voters and 34 percent among black voters.

De Blasio did especially well among left-leaning New Yorkers, attracting the support of 50 percent of "very liberal" voters and 42 percent of "somewhat liberal" voters.

He also saw success in establishing himself as an anti-establishment candidate. Sixty-five percent of voters said the city should go in a new direction after 12 years with Michael Bloomberg as mayor, and of those voters, 42 percent backed de Blasio.

And despite the minor furor following de Blasio's admission that he roots for the Boston Red Sox, 88 percent of voters said that wouldn't affect their vote.

The primary election is in less than two weeks, on Sept. 10. A near-majority 49 percent of voters now say they're definitely not going to change their minds, although 31 percent say there's still a good chance they'll switch candidates.

As HuffPost Pollster's chart shows, de Blasio has so far done somewhat better in Quinnipiac's recent surveys than he has in those conducted by other polling outlets -- an Aug. 14 NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll put him tied with Quinn at 24 percent.

The Quinnipiac poll surveyed 602 primary voters using live phone calls between Aug. 22 and Aug. 27.
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Mystery Building--supposed to be 180 East 72nd Street according to my notes, but I cannot figure out what is wrong

Well, the canopy definitely says 180 on it so it DOES exist..

I was just interested in this building because it is another classic type from the 1920's probably with what looks like very high living room ceilings...

Actually, there is a building at 180 East 79th Street that has high ceilinged living rooms, but checked the photo and it definitely is not this one.

Oh well...I wonder what street it IS on
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Architectural Investigator- 318 East 62nd Street

Here is a building in East Midtown I noticed had just been renovated ( I like the glass brick at the entrance)

Let me check City Records, which have not been working right tonight...will try anyway 

Borough:ManhattanBlock:1436Lot:44
Police Precinct:19
Owner:OVERSIGHT MANAGEMENT

Address:318EAST 62 STREET,NEW YORK10065
Lot Area:2008 sf
Lot Frontage:20'Lot Depth:100.42Year Built:1910
Number of Buildings:1
Number of Floors:5
Gross Floor Area:6,020 sf (estimated)
Residential Units:6Total # of Units:7
Land Use:Mixed Residential and Commercial Buildings
Zoning:R8B
Commercial Overlay:C2-5
Zoning Map #:8c
Dept. of City Planning, PLUTO 13v1 © 2013 and other city agency sources
Now let's see if there is anything else on the internet about this building--Aha-

318 E 62nd StAPT 4F, New York, NY 10065

Not for Sale

Zestimate®: None What's this?

Last sale price: --

Sold date:--

Description
Only three flights up to this beautifully renovated apartment with immaculate finishes. Very bright northern and eastern exposures. Brand new polished wide plank hardwood flooring, ceramic tiled kitchen, full sized appliances, including dishwasher, kitchen center island, recessed lighting, lots of storage, wired for internet and cable, luxurious new full modern bath. Tenant controlled wall mount AC unit (electronic split…  More
    • CoolingUnknown
    • ParkingUnknown
    • Basement TypeUnknown
    • FireplaceUnknown
    • Floor CoveringUnknown
    • AtticUnknown
  • MoreSee data sources
Zestimates
 ValueRange30-day change $/sqftLast updated
Zestimate What's this?None--------
Rent Zestimate What's this?$2,873/mo$2.0K – $3.4K/mo+$26--08/26/2013
Market guide
Zillow predicts New York home values will rise 0.3% next year, compared to a 0.3% increase for New York Metro as a…  more
 
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Website with News and Merchandise for Local Kips Bay Firehouse-

I remember doing a story on a store in the Village that sold FDNY T shirts etc. and how one Yelper said he got his at his neighborhood firehouse and it was much better.

This local Kips Bay Firehouse has a website with, news, history and merchandise on it-- I tried to copy some of it on to the blog but it wouldn't work so let me just give you the website where you can browse around for yourself --actually, they called themselves part of the Gramercy Section

http://www.fdnye16l7.com/
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Architectural Investigator: 232 East 30th Street

Modern, rather austere apartment building in Kips Bay has all sorts of interesting window treatments as you go higher-- all North facing, reminiscent of artist studio's with their big skylights to get the Northern exposure..

First let us see what the City has... 

Borough:ManhattanBlock:910Lot:46
Police Precinct:13
Owner:230 EAST 30TH LLC

Address:232EAST 30 STREET,NEW YORK10016
Lot Area:11904 sf
Lot Frontage:118'Lot Depth:132.5Year Built:1989
Number of Buildings:2
Number of Floors:18
Gross Floor Area:109,417 sf (estimated)
Residential Units:126Total # of Units:126
Land Use:Multi-Family Elevator Buildings
Zoning:R7BR8B
Commercial Overlay:
Zoning Map #:8d
Dept. of City Planning, PLUTO 13v1 © 2013 and other city agency sources
I wonder why this is listed as two buildings...anyway, let us see what else we can find on the internet..

WOW...all information and pictures regarding this building have been pulled off the internet, with just messages saying rentals are no longer available. So remains a mystery building! 
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