We conclude our exploration into the life of Fred French with a final series of photographs.  Cordelia, Fred, and Leonard Thomas in Central ...

Again, a return to A Vigorous Life , the joint effort of Fred and John French at an autobiographical biography. Today's focus is on pict...

  Today we present "A Vigorous Life: The Story of Fred F. French, Builder of Skyscrapers," by two authors: Fred French, who provid...

Another post concerning James T. Farrell, author of the Studs Lonigan trilogy in the 1930s, and a resident of No. 5 in the 1960s. Today'...

Yes, they are back. Apparently the sales of the first book ‒ The Little Dogs of Tudor City ‒ were sufficient enough to fund these new arr...

  This is a story about a new children's book, The Little Dogs of TUDOR CITY that has come to our attention. Written by Jay Bua and Ralp...

This edition of Tudor City in Literature examines Love Preferred, a 193os romance novel. Its author, Edna Robb Webster, was a specialist in ...

Today, a look at the Murder of the Clergyman's Mistress , a 1931 detective novel wherein Tudor City makes a cameo appearance. The boo...

Erle Stanley Gardner Resident of the day is Erle Stanley Gardner, mega-selling author and Windsor Tower tenant.  Born 1889, he begins ...

We thought our previous resident of note, Twiggy , would be hard to top. Well, how about William Faulkner? Yes, that's right, the Nobel ...

In this installment of Tudor City Lit, please welcome Kurt Vonnegut, world-renowned bestselling author ‒ and Tudor City cynic, at least ju...

Following up on our last post about the French Company's Fifth Avenue headquarters, we fast-forward to 1997, when the building turns u...

In the 1930s and 40s, newspaper workers gravitate to Tudor City given its convenience to the Daily News, Daily Mirror and New York Times bu...

Farrell, circa 1968 Continuing our series on notable community residents, here's the lowdown on resident James T. Farrell, a critic...

First in a series of posts about Tudor City as a literary setting. We begin with the Adela Rogers St. Johns novel, The Root of All Evil. ...