takes up most of sixteen blocks in the northeast of the neighborhood, between and Barnett Avenue. The City Housing Corporation built it between 1924 and 1928 as the first attempt at a garden city in the United States. Clarence Stein and Henry Wright planned each block as a single unit, with two story brick rows around a planted court shared across the interior. Buildings cover 28 percent of the land.
The district went on the National Register in 1984 and became a city historic district in 2007, which has helped preserve it. The , two larger courtyard buildings Stein designed in the 1930s, stand at the northeast corner.
South of the Gardens the blocks turn to prewar apartment houses and rowhouses. The 7 came out on an elevated line in 1917 and runs above on a concrete viaduct, with local stops at 33rd, 40th and 46th Streets.
is the main commercial strip, and the stands over 46th Street just off it. has its own shops between 39th and 49th Streets. So do and 43rd Avenue, closer to the Gardens.
Along the northern edge is , 192 acres of working tracks the Pennsylvania Railroad opened in 1910. Amtrak owns it now and shares it with NJ Transit. The 39th Street bridge crosses the yard, with the Long Island City towers on the far side.
The CBS series Person of Interest shot night scenes on 43rd through 46th Streets between 43rd Avenue and in October 2014. Days earlier The Good Wife, another CBS series, had filmed on and on 48th and 49th Streets. At the community board meeting that week, a member said the filming had become excessive.
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