Hawthorne Court Apartments

215-37 43rd Avenue | Bayside | built 1931

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1930
The Neisloss brothers hire Benjamin Braunstein to design a garden apartment court
Benjamin and Harry Neisloss, builders from Jamaica who were early developers of multi-family housing in Bayside, bought this corner of 43rd Avenue and 216th Street from Frederic and Annie Storm in 1928. Two years later they engaged architect Benjamin Braunstein to plan a complex of 16 two-family units here.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1931
Hawthorne Court wins a Queens Chamber of Commerce design award
When the Tudor Revival complex was new, its advertisements claimed that an unnamed "famous architect" had called the complex the "most beautiful apartment group I have ever seen." The Queens Chamber of Commerce also gave the complex an award for its design, which arranges the apartments around a courtyard reached by two paths, one passing under a wrought-iron archway.
“…advertisements boasted that “a famous architect” deemed it the “most beautiful apartment group I have ever seen” and the Queens Chamber of Commerce awarded it…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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