Hawthorne Court Apartments

215-43 43rd Avenue | also 42-28 216th Street, 215-37 43rd Avenue | Bayside | built 1931

Open on the map3 entries

The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1907

    A house for Frederick A. Storm Jr. rises on the empty corner lot

    This corner had been part of a tract of 591 building lots mapped for Straiton & Storm in 1871, but it stayed vacant for decades. In 1907-08 a house designed by Frederick E. Hill was built here for Frederick A. Storm Jr. The Neisloss brothers tore it down in 1928 to clear the ground for Hawthorne Court.

    “The site of Hawthorne Court remained undeveloped until 1907-08 when a house designed by Frederick E. Hill was built for Frederick A. Storm, Jr.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1931

    Braunstein groups 16 Tudor Revival units around a landscaped courtyard

    The complex splits its 16 two-family units into two buildings, one of 11 units and one of five, with most front doors opening onto the shared court. Braunstein varied the rooflines, dormers, entrances and proportions of facade materials from unit to unit. Along 43rd Avenue the end units sit behind deep lawns and pass for large houses, while those on 216th Street stand nearer the sidewalk like a row of Tudor townhouses.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 2014

    November 25

    The Landmarks Preservation Commission designates Hawthorne Court over its owner's objections

    The commission first heard the case on March 22, 2011, when the Bayside Historical Society, the Historic Districts Council and other groups spoke in favor and the owner spoke against. The hearing was kept open, and at a second session on October 28, 2014, the owner and her representative again opposed it. The complex became a city landmark on November 25, 2014.

    “The owner and her representative spoke in opposition to designation.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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