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Dunbar Apartments

Apartment buildings in New York CityCondominiums and housing cooperatives in ManhattanFormer cooperatives of the United StatesHarlemHistoric American Buildings Survey in New York (state)
New York City Designated Landmarks in ManhattanResidential buildings completed in 1926Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Manhattan
2014 Dunbar Apartments interior courtyard looking west
2014 Dunbar Apartments interior courtyard looking west

The Dunbar Apartments, also known as the Paul Laurence Dunbar Garden Apartments or Dunbar Garden Apartments, is a complex of buildings located on West 149th and West 150th Streets between Frederick Douglass Boulevard/Macombs Place and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. They were built by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. from 1926 to 1928 to provide housing for African Americans, and was the first large cooperative aimed at that demographic. The buildings were designed by architect Andrew J. Thomas and were named in honor of the noted African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. The complex consists of six separate buildings with a total of 511 apartments (as constructed) and occupies an entire city block. The buildings center around an interior garden courtyard, with each building "U"-shaped so that every apartment receives easy air flow and direct sunlight at some point during the day. The Dunbar is considered the "first large garden-complex in Manhattan."The complex was designated a New York City Landmark in 1970, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

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Dunbar Apartments
West 150th Street, New York Manhattan

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West 150th Street 230
10039 New York, Manhattan
New York, United States
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2014 Dunbar Apartments interior courtyard looking west
2014 Dunbar Apartments interior courtyard looking west
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