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Stuyvesant Apartments

1870 – 1960

The Stuyvesant Apartments, Stuyvesant Flats, Rutherfurd Stuyvesant Flats or simply The Stuyvesant, was an apartment building located at 142 East 18th Street between Irving Place and Third Avenue in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is considered to be the first apartment building in the city intended for the middle class, who previously were not used to living in apartments, which were initially called "French flats" at the time. Before the Stuyvesant, almost all of the housing in New York City consisted of either tenements or townhouses.

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People who lived here

Joseph Benson Gilder — American editor and journalist (1858–1936)
Oliver Herford — American writer and illustrator (1863-1935)
Peter Bonnett Wight — American architect (1838–1925)
Elinor Wylie — American poet (1885-1928)
Worthington Whittredge — American painter (1820-1910)
Calvert Vaux — Anglo-American architect (1824-1895)
William Rose Benét — American writer (1886-1950)
George Palmer Putnam — American publisher and writer (1814-1872)
Elizabeth Jordan — American journalist (1865–1947)