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Turtle Bay is a neighborhood in New York City, on the east side of Midtown Manhattan. It extends from roughly 43rd Street to 53rd Street , and eastward from Lexington Avenue to the East River 's western branch (facing Roosevelt Island ).
The Turtle Bay Gardens Historic District is a collection of twenty rowhouses in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.They consist of eleven houses on the south side of 49th Street and nine on the north side of 48th Street, between Second and Third Avenues.
The headquarters of the United Nations (UN) is on 17 to 18 acres (6.9 to 7.3 ha) of grounds in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.It borders First Avenue to the west, 42nd Street to the south, 48th Street to the north, and the East River to the east. [4]
Beekman Place is a small street located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood on the East Side of Manhattan, New York City.Running from north to south for two blocks, the street is situated between the eastern end of 51st Street and Mitchell Place, where it ends at a retaining wall above 49th Street, overlooking the glass apartment towers at 860 and 870 United Nations Plaza, just north of the ...
Turkish House, designed by Perkins Eastman, is 35 stories tall and measures 561 feet (171 m) from the ground to the roof. [2] [3] The building contains about 220,000 square feet (20,000 m 2) of usable space, of which 180,000 square feet (17,000 m 2) is used by the Permanent Mission of Turkey to the United Nations and the Consulate General of Turkey in New York City; the rest is residential space.
The major neighborhoods on the East Side include (from north to south) East Harlem, [1] Yorkville, [2] the Upper East Side, Turtle Bay, Murray Hill, Kips Bay, Gramercy, East Village, and the Lower East Side.
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The group of New York businessmen (including Zeckendorf), who once planned the Turtle Bay site for their "private development," lost after Rockefeller announced he would "give to the city of New York the land as a gift." Mayor O'Dwyer gratefully accepted the gift from the Rockefellers and New York City became the future home of the UN.