Tudor City Twilight

Tudor City Twilight

For years I have loved the area of Midtown-East that stretches from Tudor City to Grand Central Terminal.
That love affair actually goes back to when I first explored here in my teen years with my very first SLR camera.

I came to love the unique topography that sets most of Tudor City apart from the bustle of E 42nd St. From that rocky bluff rise 1920's Tudor Revival-style apartment buildings, fronting inviting parks and playground. And Tudor City Place with its bridge over E 42nd provides impressive views, whether looking west toward the Chrysler Building, Grand Central, and One Vanderbilt, or east to the United Nations Secretariat Building and across the East River to Long Island City, Queens. I love those views, especially at twilight.

As suggested here by the handsome lanterns flanking its entrance on E 42nd, Woodstock Tower is actually part of Tudor City (without being on the bluff), and I loved how nature's artwork, in the form of the patterns of winter-bare trees against the blue of twilight, complimented the combination of Tudor Revival and 1950s Modern architecture as the U.N. Secretariat rises just beyond Tudor City Place.

A keen-eyed observer may even spot the sign promoting the Summit One Vanderbilt experience (*)
just a few blocks west (and 1,200 feet skyward)..

©2023 Steve Ember
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