Stardust Skies in Albuquerque, NM

Stardust Skies is a mid-century subdivision in Albuquerque's Northeast Heights, east of Louisiana Boulevard NE and across it from the older Altamont tract. Mossman-Gladden built the neighborhood through the 1960s and into the early 1970s, one of four the firm laid out between Candelaria Road and San Antonio Drive. Its houses followed the same planned-subdivision formula as Altamont, drawn somewhat larger. Stardust Skies Park, a city park on Pennsylvania NE, sits inside the neighborhood and gives the surrounding blocks their name. Comanche Elementary, Cleveland Middle and Sandia High serve much of the area.

No homeowners association governs Stardust Skies and no dues attach to the houses. Residents organize through the Stardust Skies North Neighborhood Association, which the city's Office of Neighborhood Coordination carries on its list of recognized associations.

Mossman-Gladden worked eastward across Louisiana Boulevard after finishing Altamont, and the two developments share a layout logic. The firm's wider run of building sits inside a rectangle of arterials: San Mateo and Wyoming to the west and east, Candelaria and San Antonio to the south and north. That frame is how the neighborhood connects to the rest of the Northeast Heights.