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If you feel most secure when you have a slew of good hospitals within walking distance
from your home, then this is the place for you. (Unless sirens keep you up at night.)
Stuyvesant is located between 23rd and 14th Street from 1st Avenue to the East River
and is home to five of Manhattan’s best medical facilities, including Beth Israel
and NYU Hospitals. It’s not a place people generally go unless they have a specific
reason to, but its close in proximity to downtown and midtown. Stuyvesant allows
residents to enjoy the benefits of being in the “middle of things” without dealing
with the hassles of being a destination point. Tourists and hipsters seeking cool
places aren’t going to swamp favorite neighborhood restaurants or clog the sidewalks
here, but if you want a little excitement the East Village to the South and Gramercy
Park to the West is just a short walk away.
Once part of Peter Stuyvesant’s farm (the first Dutch governor of Manhattan), the
neighborhood occupies a patch of land which was sold to the city by his descendents
for $5. No longer is the pastoral place it once was, Stuyvesant home to two enormous
middle class housing projects and a scattering of luxury buildings, renovated tenements
and brownstones. As the result of a law that was passed encouraging corporations
to take part in the clearing of slums and building of housing, Metropolitan Life
built over 18 middle-class apartment buildings which make up Peter Cooper Village
and Stuyvesant Town. Occupied primarily by veterans and their families after World
War II, candidates for apartments had to meet strict lifestyle and income requirements
in order to become tenants. For a short period of time there was a philosophy that
non-married couples and non-whites need not apply. Today that is not the case. The
apartments and waiting lists (some say eight years long) of Copper Village and Stuyvesant
are filled with a diverse group of people. Much like college campuses constructed
during or after the last world war, the area consists of modest utilitarian buildings,
landscaped greens and large trees.
Education and learning is highly valued in this neighborhood, which is home to some
of the best schools in the city such as PS 40. Stuyvesant is host to some non traditional
schools as well including the High School of Health Professions and Human Services
and Institute for Collaborative Education. At the same time, Stuyvesant Adult Center
provides a wide range of inexpensive evening courses for those wanting to further
their education.
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Metropolis Real Estate of Manhattan | 167 Lexington Avenue, Suite 100 | New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212.696.1900, Fax: 212.696.0220 | Email: info@metropolisre.com
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