Phipps Garden Apartments

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Phipps Garden Apartments is a group of brick apartment buildings in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, New York City. Built in 1931 by Phipps Houses, a family charity, with Henry Wright, it was designed to provide good, affordable homes for working families. The complex sits on 39th Avenue between 50th and 52nd Streets, near Sunnyside Gardens Park and Sunnyside Yard. Architect Clarence Stein designed the buildings, which feature decorative brickwork and curved steel fire escapes, and they surround a landscaped courtyard planned by Marjorie Sewell Cautley. A second set of buildings was added in the late 1930s north of the first block toward the Sunnyside Yard. There used to be a playground across the street designed by Cautley, but it closed in the 1990s. In 2007, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated Phipps Garden Apartments as part of the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District.