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This10-story, cooperative apartment building built in 1927, was converted to a cooperative in 1988. It has 143 apartments and is part of the Tudor City complex developed by Fred F. French & Co., and is within the Tudor City Historic District.

The building is nearby the park at Tudor City and close to the Ford Foundation Building across the street. The Cloister has views of the Chrysler Building to the west and the United Nations to the east.

Enter Kentucky via the I-275 South and East: you will pass the Greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport.

Continue on I-275 East to Exit 79 ( Taylor Mill Road/ Covington ) at the stoplight on Taylor Mill Road, turn left and/or north. Continue down the hill, at the bottom of the hill, you will be on Winston Ave.

Go to East 40th Street, at the stoplightturn right. At the end of 40th Street go under the railroad immediately turn right, go one block to stop sign, turn left, onto 43rd street, straight, deadends into Twin Oaks Golf & Magnolia Room.

(Approximately 12 minutes from the Airport.)

Built in 1927 and converted to a co-op in 1988, The Manor at 333 East 43rd Street is part of the historic Tudor City complex constructed by Fred F. French as a tranquil respite away from the bustle of Midtown Manhattan, yet near all of its amenities. The Manor mixes Tudor and Neo-Gothic motifs in its stone-trimmed, red-brick faade. A canopied entrance leads to a carpeted, sconce-lit, medieval-styled lobby framed by brick and rich wood paneling. While thick-walled apartments exude Art Deco-era charm, building amenities have kept up with the times, as they include a 2,000-sqaure-foot fitness center with a yoga studio, laundry, a planted roof garden, and storage and bike rooms, in addition to a full-time doorman and a live-in super. To the south, the Manor overlooks Tudor City Greens, a charming park lined with Gothic-styled apartments, and faces the iconic United Nations complex to the east. The co-op sits a handful of blocks away from the Grand Central Terminal. Local food favorites include Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Greenmarket and Sushi Yasuda.

The building is designed as a glass-and-steel cube held up by piers made of concrete and clad with Dakota granite. The main entrance is along 43rd Street. A second entrance on 42nd Street leads to a large public atrium, the first such space in an office building in Manhattan. The atrium contains landscaping from Dan Kiley and includes plants, shrubs, trees, and vines. Most of the building's offices are north and west of the atrium and are visible from other offices.

The building was commissioned for the Ford Foundation, then the largest private foundation in the United States, after Henry Heald became foundation president. The Ford Foundation Building was announced in 1963 and completed in 1968 on the former site of the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled. Between 2015 and 2018, the Ford Foundation Building underwent a major renovation and restoration project, and it was renamed the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice. The Ford Foundation Building has been critically acclaimed for its design, both after its completion and after the renovation. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the building and its atrium as city landmarks in 1997.

The Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice is on the south side of 43rd Street, in the middle of the block between First Avenue to the east and Second Avenue to the west. It has addresses at 321 East 42nd Street to the south and 320 East 43rd Street to the north, although the 43rd Street entrance is the main entrance.[2][3][4] The site measures 202 by 200 feet (62 by 61 m), of which the building occupies an area measuring 180 by 174 feet (55 by 53 m).[5] The Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled Children (now the Hospital for Special Surgery) previously occupied the plot.[6][7]

The building is less than one block west of the headquarters of the United Nations, and it is surrounded by the Tudor City development.[4][8][9] The Church of the Covenant is immediately across 42nd Street to the south, and the Daily News Building is diagonally across 42nd Street and Second Avenue to the southwest. In addition, the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design and Beaux-Arts Apartments are one block north.[4]

43rd Street is a one-way street sloping down from Tudor City to the rest of the Manhattan grid.[4][10] Because of the street grid of the area, vehicles traveling to the building must travel eastward on 41st Street from Second Avenue, then turn onto Tudor City Plaza (which crosses 42nd Street), and then turn again onto 43rd Street.[9][10][11] This creates a "scenic" approach for the main entrance.[2][9] One architectural critic said that the complicated approach path was "not an accident but conscious contrivance".[10] Kevin Roche, one of the architects, stated that the approach to the building was intended to be similar to that in a rural setting.[9][11] Due to the topography, the 43rd Street entrance leads to the second floor, while the rear entrance on 42nd Street leads to the first floor. The spaces between the lot lines and the facades on 42nd and 43rd Streets contain red-brown brick pavers.[5]

The Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice is 12 stories high and reaches 174 feet (53 m)[12][13] or 180 feet (55 m).[14] It was designed by Eero Saarinen Associates (renamed Roche-Dinkeloo in 1966), composed of Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo,[15][16] who took over the firm after its namesake Eero Saarinen died in 1961. Roche was involved primarily in design, while Dinkeloo oversaw the construction.[16][17] Turner Construction was the contractor for the building.[16] The interior space covers 415,000 square feet (38,600 m2).[13] In a 1988 book, Richard Berenholtz wrote that the building was, stylistically, "a thematic descendant of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Anglo-Chinois garden and of the Victorian conservatory".[15]

The southern elevation is on 42nd Street. The western part of this elevation is a windowless granite slab. The eastern portion consists of two large granite piers: one at the center of the facade, and one at the southeastern corner. On the eastern section of the facade, the first through tenth stories have a recessed glass wall, while the eleventh and twelfth stories are recessed at a lesser depth and are carried over this recess by a glass-walled enclosure with an I-beam on top. The twelfth story protrudes further out than the eleventh story, and a catwalk hangs underneath the eleventh story. A revolving door is between the two diagonal piers, and there is an additional set of doors in the space between the center pier and the western section of the facade.[5]

The eastern elevation faces Tudor City. It is similar to the 42nd Street elevation: the northern section is clad with granite while the southern section is a recessed glass wall, and there is a diagonally-oriented pier in the center of the facade. The southeast-corner pier does not face onto the eastern elevation. The eleventh and twelfth floors, as well as the catwalk, are also recessed to a lesser extent than the first through tenth floors.[5]

The northern elevation is on 43rd Street. The easternmost part of the facade is a windowless granite slab. The rest of the facade is composed of glass-walled offices between four narrow granite piers that divide the windows into three vertical bays.[5] The second-floor entrance is recessed significantly inward, creating a brick-paved porte-cochre behind the four piers. There are two brass double doors at this entrance.[30] The third and fourth stories are recessed as well, but at a progressively smaller scale, and the eleventh and twelfth stories are also slightly recessed.[5][25][31] The setbacks on this elevation were designed to reflect the terraced garden inside.[31]

The western elevation faces a private driveway. It is faced with granite, with a narrow bay of windows and two wider window bays from north to south. This private driveway also has brick pavers, a loading dock, and garage and service entrances.[6]

As originally arranged, the atrium had 18 aquatic plants in a pool, 37 trees, 148 vines, 999 shrubs, and 22,000 ground cover plants.[16][35] Kiley transported some eucalyptus plants from California in the ultimately unrealized expectation that they would grow to 80 feet (24 m).[39] The plantings were arranged around a central square fountain.[34][39] Kiley had projected that his garden would have "a Darwinian struggle of the fittest", with only some plants surviving the atrium's difficult climactic conditions.[31] However, many of the original plants had to be replaced.[13][40] By the late 2010s, landscape designer Raymond Jungles of Jungles Studio had replanted the atrium with subtropical flora.[13]

Because of the concentration of skyscrapers in the surrounding area, artificial light was used to illuminate the garden.[41] The atrium was originally lit by 76 spotlights on the eleventh floor and 43 lights at ground level,[27] although these lights were subsequently replaced.[38] Several Dakota granite piers support a glass roof above the atrium, and the paths are made of red-brown brick pavers.[36] A glass roof composed of greenhouse-like "sawtooth" panels is above the atrium.[38] There were originally no benches in the atrium,[42] but a single bench was subsequently added near the water feature.[43]

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