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Coordinates: 40°45′19″N 73°58′03″W / 40.75536°N 73.967412°W
Turtle Bay is a neighborhood in New York City, on the east side of Midtown Manhattan. It extends between 41st and 53rd Streets, and eastward from Lexington Avenue to the East River, across from Roosevelt Island.[1] It is the site of the United Nations Headquarters and the Chrysler Building.
Turtle Bay was a valuable shelter from the often harsh weather of the East River, and it also became a thriving site for shipbuilding. By 1868, however, the bay had been entirely filled in by commercial overdevelopment, packed with slaughterhouses, cattle pens, and railroad piers.
The Turtle Bay neighborhood was originally a 40-acre (160,000 m²) grant given to two Englishmen by the Dutch colonial governor of New Amsterdam in 1639, and named "Turtle Bay Farm". After the street grid system was initiated in Manhattan, the hilly landscape of the Turtle Bay Farm was graded to create cross-streets and the land was subdivided for residential development.
An army enrollment office was established at Third Avenue and 46th Street, after the first Draft Act was passed during the American Civil War. On July 13, 1863, an angry mob burned the office to the ground and proceeded to riot through the surrounding neighborhood, destroying entire blocks. The New York Draft Riots continued for three days before army troops managed to contain the mob, which had burned and looted much of the city.
After the war's end, the formerly pastoral Turtle Bay neighborhood was developed with brownstones. With an infusion of poor immigrants in the later part of the 19th century, and the opening of the elevated train lines along Second and Third Avenues, the neighborhood went into decay with crumbling tenement buildings. Much of it was restored in the 1920s, and a large communal garden was established. The clearing of the slaughterhouses for the construction of the UN Headquarters in 1946 and the removal of the elevated trains opened the neighborhood up for high-rise office buildings and condominiums. In 1957, the Turtle Bay Association was formed by residents and property owners in hopes of guiding the development to maintain the neighborhood's quality of life. The Association's efforts have resulted in more park and landscaping development, creating the neighborhood's tree-lined and relatively quiet atmosphere.
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The Turtle Bay Association
The Turtle Bay Association is a neighborhood non-profit 501(c)3 organization that was founded in 1957[2] to protest the widening of East 49th Street, which succeeded.[3] It now serves as advocate for residents of Turtle Bay.
Economy
Fujitsu operates an office at 733 Third Avenue.[4] Avianca operates a New York-area sales office in Suite 2525 at 122 East 42nd Street.[5] Ethiopian Airlines operates a sales office at 336 East 45th Street.[6] In 1975 Trans World Airlines was headquartered in Turtle Bay.[7]
Diplomatic missions
Missions to the United States in Turtle Bay include:[1]
- Consulate-General of the Bahamas[8]
- Consulate-General of Germany[9]
- Consulate-General of Israel in New York[10]
- Consulate-General of Jamaica[11]
- Consulate-General of Luxembourg[12]
- Consulate-General of Saudi Arabia[13]
- Consulate-General of Singapore[14]
- Consulate-General of the United Kingdom[15]
- Consulate-General of Ukraine[16]
Several missions to the United Nations are in Turtle Bay.[1][17] They include:
- Albania
- Andorra
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- The Bahamas[8]
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belgium
- Belize
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei Darussalam
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Canada
- Chad
- Chile
- Comoros
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Republic of the Congo
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- France
- The Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guinea
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Republic of Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan[18]
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Libya
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Federated States of Micronesia[19]
- Monaco
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Nauru[20]
- New Zealand
- North Korea
- Saudi Arabia[13]
- Turkey
- United States (temporary location at 140 East 45th Street, between Third Avenue and Lexington Avenue. A permanent mission building will open across from the United Nations complex)[21]
- Vietnam[22]
In fiction
- Turtle Bay is the setting for a considerable portion of the Kurt Vonnegut science fiction novel Slapstick.
- The animated series The Venture Bros.'s pilot episode takes place largely at the UN headquarters and is entitled "The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay".
- Turtle Bay is the location of a certain vacant lot in Stephen King's Dark Tower series, where the Tower takes the form of The Rose. Later, the lot is revealed to be the site of 1 Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza.
- Turtle Bay is the home of fictional character "Stone Barringon" in a series written by Stuart Woods.
- In the song "Stars and The Moon" from the musical revue Songs for a New World by Jason Robert Brown, a rich suitor promises to buy the singer a "townhouse in Turtle Bay."
- Turtle Bay, and specifically Beekman Place (Manhattan) is home to the fictional character "Mame Dennis" in the Novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis. It is also featured in the Broadway Show, Musical and Films based on the novel.
References
- ^ a b c "Map." Turtle Bay Association. Retrieved on January 25, 2009.
- ^ "History of Turtle Bay". Turtle Bay Association. http://turtlebay-nyc.org/history.html. Retrieved on 2009-02-15.
- ^ Hughes, C.J. (2008-03-2008). "In the Many Enclaves, One Neighborhood". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/realestate/30livi.html. Retrieved on 2009-02-15.
- ^ "Worldwide United States." Fujitsu. Retrieved on February 4, 2009.
- ^ "Offices rest of the world." Avianca. Retrieved on January 27, 2009.
- ^ "Sales Offices." Ethiopian Airlines. Retrieved on January 26, 2009.
- ^ World Airline Directory. Flight International. March 20, 1975. "508.
- ^ a b "Consular/Travel Information." Permanent Mission of the Bahamas to the United Nations. Retrieved on January 26, 2009.
- ^ "Address, Contact, Hours." Consulate-General of Germany in New York. Retrieved on January 26, 2009.
- ^ "Consular Department." Consulate-General of Israel in New York. Retrieved on January 26, 2009.
- ^ "Contact Us." Consulate-General of Jamaica in New York. Retrieved on January 30, 2009.
- ^ "Home." Consulate-General of Luxembourg in New York. Retrieved on January 28, 2009.
- ^ a b "Ministry addresses in the U.S.." Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C.. Retrieved on January 26, 2009.
- ^ "Singapore Consulate in New York Mission Homepage." Consulate-General of Singapore in New York. Retrieved on January 28, 2009.
- ^ "New York." UK in the USA. Retrieved on January 25, 2009.
- ^ Home page. Consulate-General of Ukraine in New York. Retrieved on January 26, 2009.
- ^ "United Nations Member States." United Nations. Retrieved on January 26, 2009.
- ^ "Contact Us." Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations. Retrieved on January 26, 2009.
- ^ "FSM Mission Address." Federated States of Micronesia Mission to the United Nations. Retrieved on January 26, 2009.
- ^ "Brief Overview and List of Staff Members." Permanent Mission of the Republic of Nauru to the United Nations. Retrieved on January 26, 2009.
- ^ "About the Mission." United States Mission to the United Nations. Retrieved on January 26, 2009.
- ^ "Ministry addresses in the U.S.." Embassy of Vietnam in Washington, D.C.. Retrieved on January 26, 2009.
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