Joseph Eichler, the Glossary
Joseph Leopold Eichler (June 25, 1900 – July 1, 1974) was a 20th-century post-war American real estate developer known for developing distinctive residential subdivisions of mid-century modern style tract housing in California.[1]
Table of Contents
102 relations: A-frame, A. Quincy Jones, American middle class, Anshen & Allen, Atherton, California, Atherwood, Atrium (architecture), Burlingame, California, California, Castro Valley, California, Chestnut Ridge, New York, Community centre, Concord, California, Concrete slab, Cupertino, California, Diamond Heights, San Francisco, Discrimination, East Bay, Fairglen Additions, Foster City, California, Frank Lloyd Wright, Geni.com, Granada Hills, Los Angeles, Greater Los Angeles, Green America, Greenmeadow (Palo Alto, California), Hillsborough, California, HTTP 404, Jews, John Calder Mackay, Ladera, California, Land Park, Sacramento, California, Legal Information Institute, List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley, Los Altos, California, Los Angeles, Lucas Valley, Lucas Valley-Marinwood, California, Marin County, California, Mid-century modern, Modern architecture, Monta Loma, Mountain View, Monte Sereno, California, Mountain View, California, National Association of Home Builders, New York City, New York University, Northern California, Oakland, California, Orange, California, ... Expand index (52 more) »
A-frame
An A-frame is a basic structure designed to bear a load in a lightweight economical manner.
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A. Quincy Jones
Archibald Quincy Jones (April 29, 1913 – August 3, 1979) was a Los Angeles–based architect and educator known for innovative buildings in the modernist style and for urban planning that pioneered the use of greenbelts and green design.
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American middle class
Though the American middle class does not have a definitive definition, contemporary social scientists have put forward several ostensibly congruent theories on it.
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Anshen & Allen
Anshen and Allen was an international architecture, planning and design firm headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Boston, Columbus, and London. Joseph Eichler and Anshen & Allen are architecture in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Atherton, California
Atherton is an incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States.
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Atherwood
Atherwood is a subdivision in Redwood City, California, that was built in 1950 by housing developer Joseph Eichler.
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Atrium (architecture)
In architecture, an atrium (atria or atriums) is a large open-air or skylight-covered space surrounded by a building.
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Burlingame, California
Burlingame is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
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Castro Valley, California
Castro Valley is a census-designated place (CDP) in Alameda County, California, United States.
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Chestnut Ridge, New York
Chestnut Ridge is a village in the town of Ramapo, Rockland County, New York, United States, located north of the state of New Jersey, east of Airmont, south of Spring Valley, and west of Nanuet.
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A community centre, community center, or community hall is a public location where members of a community gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes.
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Concord, California
Concord is the most populous city in Contra Costa County, California, United States.
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Concrete slab
A concrete slab is a common structural element of modern buildings, consisting of a flat, horizontal surface made of cast concrete.
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Cupertino, California
Cupertino is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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Diamond Heights, San Francisco
Diamond Heights is a neighborhood in central San Francisco, California, roughly bordered by Diamond Heights Boulevard and Noe Valley to the north and east and Glen Canyon Park to the south and west.
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Discrimination
Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation.
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East Bay
The East Bay is the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area and includes cities along the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay.
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Fairglen Additions
The Fairglen Additions is an example of Mid-century modern-style tract housing located in San Jose, California, US.
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Foster City, California
Foster City is a master-planned city located in San Mateo County, California, United States.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator.
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Geni.com
Geni is an American commercial genealogy and social networking website, founded in 2006, and owned by MyHeritage, an Israeli private company, since November 2012.
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Granada Hills, Los Angeles
Granada Hills is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles.
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Greater Los Angeles
Greater Los Angeles is the most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. state of California, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County in the east, with Los Angeles County in the center, and Orange County to the southeast.
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Green America
Green America (known as Co-op America until January 1, 2009) is a nonprofit membership organization based in the United States that promotes environmentally aware, ethical consumerism.
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Greenmeadow (Palo Alto, California)
Greenmeadow is a subdivision located in southern Palo Alto, California. Joseph Eichler and Greenmeadow (Palo Alto, California) are modernist architecture in California.
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Hillsborough, California
Hillsborough is an incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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HTTP 404
In computer network communications, the HTTP 404, 404 not found, 404, 404 error, page not found, or file not found error message is a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) standard response code, to indicate that the browser was able to communicate with a given server, but the server could not find what was requested.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
John Calder Mackay
John Calder Mackay (April 20, 1920 - November 21, 2014) was an American post-war real estate developer, best known for his modernist tract homes built by the company he co-founded, Mackay Homes. Joseph Eichler and John Calder Mackay are architecture in the San Francisco Bay Area and modernist architecture in California.
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Ladera, California
Ladera is a census-designated place (CDP) in southern San Mateo County, California, adjacent to Portola Valley.
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Land Park, Sacramento, California
Land Park is a neighborhood in the city of Sacramento.
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Legal Information Institute
The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a non-profit public service of Cornell Law School that provides no-cost access to current American and international legal research sources online.
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List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley
This is a list of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley, California.
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Los Altos, California
Los Altos (Spanish for "The Heights") is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
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Lucas Valley
Lucas Valley is a valley in Marin County, California, drained to the east into San Pablo Bay by Miller Creek, as well as an unincorporated community in the valley, which forms part of the Lucas Valley-Marinwood CDP.
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Lucas Valley-Marinwood, California
Lucas Valley-Marinwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Marin County, California, United States.
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Marin County, California
Marin County (Condado de Marín) is a county located in the northwestern part of the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.
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Mid-century modern
Mid-century modern (MCM) is a movement in interior design, product design, graphic design, architecture and urban development that was popular in the United States and Europe from roughly 1945 to 1970 during the United States's post-World War II period.
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Modern architecture
Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements.
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Monta Loma, Mountain View
Monta Loma is a neighborhood in Mountain View, California in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Monte Sereno, California
Monte Sereno (Spanish for "Serene Mountain") is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States.
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Mountain View, California
Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, part of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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National Association of Home Builders
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is one of the largest trade associations in the United States, representing the interests of home builders, developers, contractors, and associated businesses.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States.
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Northern California
Northern California (commonly shortened to NorCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the northern portion of the U.S. state of California, spanning the northernmost 48 of the state's 58 counties.
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Oakland, California
Oakland is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California.
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Orange, California
Orange is a city located in northern Orange County, California, United States.
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Palm Springs, California
Palm Springs (Cahuilla: Séc-he) is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, within the Colorado Desert's Coachella Valley.
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Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto (Spanish for) is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.
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Park
A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats.
Patio
A patio (from patio; "courtyard", "forecourt", "yard", "little garden") is an outdoor space generally used for dining or recreation that adjoins a structure and is typically paved.
A planned community, planned city, planned town, or planned settlement is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land.
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Pomeroy Green
Pomeroy Green is a housing complex in Santa Clara, California, USA construction in 1961.
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Post-war
A post-war or postwar period is the interval immediately following the end of a war.
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Rancho San Miguel
Rancho San Miguel is a neighborhood in Walnut Creek, California.
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Raphael Soriano
Raphael S. Soriano, FAIA, (August 1, 1904 – July 21, 1988) was a Greek-born American architect and educator, who helped define a period of 20th-century architecture that came to be known as Mid-century modern.
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Real estate development
Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to others.
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Redwood City, California
Redwood City is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Northern California's Bay Area, approximately south of San Francisco, and northwest of San Jose.
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Russian Hill, San Francisco
Russian Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
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Sacramento, California
() is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.
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San Fernando Valley
The San Fernando Valley, known locally as the Valley, is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, California.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
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San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay.
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San Francisco Peninsula
The San Francisco Peninsula is a peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area that separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean.
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San Jose, California
San Jose, officially the paren), is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2022 population of 971,233, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area—which in 2022 had a population of 7.5 million and 9.0 million respectively—the third-most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego, and the 13th-most populous in the United States.
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San Mateo County, California
San Mateo County, officially the County of San Mateo, is a county in the U.S. state of California.
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San Mateo Highlands
The Highlands is a neighborhood and unincorporated district in San Mateo County, California, United States.
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San Mateo, California
Saint Matthew is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula.
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San Rafael, California
San Rafael (Spanish for "St. Raphael") is a city and the county seat of Marin County, California, United States.
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Santa Clara County, California
Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California, with a population of 1,936,259 as of the 2020 census.
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Santa Clara, California
Santa Clara (Spanish for "Saint Clare") is a city in the county of the same name in the state of California.
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Shorea
Fruit of a ''Shorea'' species Shorea is a genus of about 196 species of mainly rainforest trees in the family Dipterocarpaceae.
Sidney Bazett House
The Sidney Bazett House, also known as the Bazett-Frank House, is a Usonian-style home on 101 Reservoir Road in Hillsborough, California, United States, designed in 1939 by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Skylight
A skylight (sometimes called a rooflight) is a light-permitting structure or window, usually made of transparent or translucent glass, that forms all or part of the roof space of a building for daylighting and ventilation purposes.
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Southern California
Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California.
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Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.
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Stanford, California
Stanford is a census-designated place (CDP) in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States.
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Subdivision (land)
Subdivisions are land that is divided into pieces that are easier to sell or otherwise develop, usually via a plat.
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Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwest Santa Clara County in the U.S. state of California.
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Swimming pool
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities.
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Terra Linda, San Rafael, California
Terra Linda (Portuguese for "Beautiful Land") is a district of the city of San Rafael, California.
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The Bronx
The Bronx is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.
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The Forward
The Forward (Forverts), formerly known as The Jewish Daily Forward, is an American news media organization for a Jewish American audience.
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The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine is an American Sunday magazine included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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Thousand Oaks, California
Thousand Oaks is the second-largest city in Ventura County, California, located in the northwestern part of Greater Los Angeles.
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Timber framing
Timber framing and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs.
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Tongue and groove
Tongue and groove is a method of fitting similar objects together, edge to edge, used mainly with wood, in flooring, parquetry, panelling, and similar constructions.
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Tract housing
Tract housing, sometimes informally known as cookie cutter housing, is a type of housing development in which multiple similar houses are built on a tract (area) of land that is subdivided into smaller lots.
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Transom (architecture)
In architecture, a transom is a transverse horizontal structural beam or bar, or a crosspiece separating a door from a window above it.
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Underfloor heating
Underfloor heating and cooling is a form of central heating and cooling that achieves indoor climate control for thermal comfort using hydronic or electrical heating elements embedded in a floor.
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Urban renewal
Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities.
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Usonia
Usonia is a word that was used by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright to refer to the United States in general (in preference over America), and more specifically to his vision for the landscape of the country, including the planning of cities and the architecture of buildings.
Veteran
A veteran is a person who has significant experience (and is usually adept and esteemed) and expertise in an occupation or field.
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Visitacion Valley, San Francisco
Visitacion Valley (Spanish: Valle de la Visitación), colloquially referred to as Viz Valley, is a neighborhood located in the southeastern quadrant of San Francisco, California.
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Walnut Creek, California
Walnut Creek is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, about east of the city of Oakland.
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Western Addition, San Francisco
The Western Addition is a district in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Willow Glen, San Jose
Willow Glen is a district of San Jose, California, in Santa Clara County.
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X-100 (house)
The X-100 is an experimental steel house designed by A. Quincy Jones with his partner Frederick Emmons for Eichler Homes and built in 1956 at the San Mateo Highlands development in California.
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York Avenue and Sutton Place
York Avenue, Sutton Place, and Sutton Place South are the names of segments of a north–south thoroughfare in the Yorkville, Lenox Hill, and Sutton Place neighborhoods of the East Side of Manhattan, in New York City.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Eichler
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