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About The Cloister, 321 East 43rd Street
This distinguished, 10-story, cooperative apartment building was erected in 1927 and 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 red-brick structure has extensive façade decoration and a fine rooftop watertank enclosure. It has a canopied entrance with a two story limestone entrance surround and a three-story limestone base. Its name is emblazoned in limestone above the entrance.
The building is close to the nice, large park at Tudor City and close to the Ford Foundation Building across the street. It is just to the east of the Permanent Mission of Malaysia to the United Nations. This building has consistent, multi paned fenestration, sidewalk landscaping and arched windows at either end of its street frontage on the first floor. It has a concierge and a Tudor-style lobby with wood entrance doors. It has no health club, no garage and no balconies.
This street is also known as UN Way and has handsome light stanchions with flags with views of the Secretariat Building of the United Nations to the east and the Chrysler Building to the west.
There is excellent cross-town bus service on 42nd Street although subways are not too close. There are numerous restaurants in the area, which has good architecture mingled in with a number of former industrial buildings and postwar office buildings.
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