STNMTZ_20140212_2874.tif | George Steinmetz

Stuyvesant apartment complex on an early winter morning with 10°F temperature two days after a snow.

Long since its drawn out and controversial beginnings in the 1940s, Stuyvesant Town has become a pleasant city within a city in Lower Manhattan. Along with the adjoining Peter Cooper Village, the enormous complex is home to more than 25,000 people, living in 110 buildings. Stuy Town’s architecture was out of step with New York’s established pattern of street-oriented buildings; instead, it hewed to a modernist vision of low towers scattered in an orderly pattern through a park, with the buildings occupying only 25 percent of the site. Given the scale of the project and its precedent-breaking plan, it’s surprisingly difficult to find out who actually designed it.

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Stuyvesant apartment complex on an early winter morning with 10°F temperature two days after a snow.<br />
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Long since its drawn out and controversial beginnings in the 1940s, Stuyvesant Town has become a pleasant city within a city in Lower Manhattan. Along with the adjoining Peter Cooper Village, the enormous complex is home to more than 25,000 people, living in 110 buildings. Stuy Town’s architecture was out of step with New York’s established pattern of street-oriented buildings; instead, it hewed to a modernist vision of low towers scattered in an orderly pattern through a park, with the buildings occupying only 25 percent of the site. Given the scale of the project and its precedent-breaking plan, it’s surprisingly difficult to find out who actually designed it.