The Towers

33-27 80th Street | also 33-16 81st Street | Jackson Heights | built 1925

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

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1923
Queensboro Corp. starts the Towers as its 1923 garden apartment project
No. 33-27 80th Street, permit NB 3131-1923, belongs to the Towers, the project the Queensboro Corp. began in 1923 with Andrew J. Thomas as architect. The company launched a major complex every year in this period, helped by state laws passed in 1920 and 1923 that gave new construction a ten-year break from real estate taxes, and by a 1922 change allowing insurance companies to invest in housing.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
No. 33-27 is one of the Towers' symmetrical palazzo-style center buildings
In the A-B-B-A row of four buildings on 80th Street, No. 33-27 is an inner building, designed by Andrew J. Thomas with balanced massing and a prominent central entrance. Its arched stone entry is rusticated and topped by a cartouche, and iron-and-glass double doors with fanlights lead inside. Like its neighbors it is a U-shaped six-story brick building finished by 1925.
“The inner buildings ("B") are symmetrically massed and have prominent entrances at the center…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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