What is Tudor City?

The other day a friend asked philosophically "what is Tudor City, exactly?"  After some thought and a little research, we concluded there's no simple answer ‒ it depends who you ask:

"THE MOST SCIENTIFIC EFFORT TO SOLVE THE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS LIVING PROBLEM"   New York Telegram

"PIONEERING"    New York Times

"SWANKY"  Daily News

"EXCLUSIVE"  Brooklyn Daily Eagle

"HIGH CLASS"  New York Herald-Tribune

"HAUGHTY"   Burton Rascoe

"HAUNTED"    Nile Rodgers

"A WAY STATION"   Adela Rogers St. Johns

"ELABORATELY ARTIFICIAL"   New Yorker 

"A CURE FOR STRAPHANGING"   New York Sun

"AN URBAN UTOPIA"   Kate Spade New York

"13 ACRES OF LOVE"   Walter Winchell

"OBSCURE AND MYSTERIOUS"  Daily News

"A QUEERLY IRRELEVANT ENCLAVE OF DEAD-END STREETS"  Kurt Vonnegut