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Tudor City is an apartment complex located on the southern edge of Turtle Bay on the East Side of Manhattan in New York City, near Turtle Bay's border with Murray Hill. It lies on a low cliff, which is east of Second Avenue between 40th and 43rd Streets and overlooks First Avenue. Construction commenced in 1926,: 18  making it the first residential skyscraper complex in the world.Tudor City was one of the first, largest, and most important examples of a planned middle-class residential community in New York City.: 10  It is named for its Tudor Revival architecture.

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