The Towers

33-28 81st Street | also 33-16 81st Street | Jackson Heights | built 1925

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

1. 1923

   Andrew J. Thomas models the Towers on Italian Romanesque and Renaissance palaces

   Thomas drew the Towers' style from Italian Romanesque and Renaissance buildings. The six-story brick blocks have palazzo-like massing and red tile roofs with deep eaves. Their arched stone entrances, either keyed or rusticated, are crowned by cartouches and fitted with iron-and-glass double doors under fanlights, and the end buildings add arcaded sixth-floor loggias, tower belvederes and round attic windows.

   “The style of the Towers is derived from Italian Romanesque and Renaissance architecture.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1923

   New state tax breaks spur the Queensboro Corporation's 1923 start on the Towers

   The Towers, begun in 1923 to Andrew J. Thomas's plans, was one of the projects the Queensboro Corporation launched every year after Linden Court. The Landmarks Preservation Commission links this yearly building to state laws passed in 1920 and 1923 that exempted new construction from real estate taxes for ten years, and to a 1922 change letting insurance companies invest in housing.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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