The Towers
33-39 80th Street | also 33-16 81st Street | Jackson Heights | built 1925
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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.
- 1923
No. 33-39 shares a 1923 permit with No. 33-51 80th Street
No. 33-39 80th Street was filed together with No. 33-51 under permit NB 3129-1923, part of the eight-building Towers complex that Andrew J. Thomas designed for the Queensboro Corp. The buildings back onto a common landscaped garden that opens to 34th Avenue, and the gates leading into it are flanked by large stone griffons. Brick walls and gates span the passages between buildings.
- 1923
The Towers' garden joins the Chateau's to form a two-block green corridor
When the Towers and the Chateau were built, 34th Avenue had a broad planted median. Both complexes let their interior gardens run out to the avenue lot line, so the two long gardens lined up across the landscaped avenue as one two-block greenway. The median planting was later lost, but the Landmarks Commission found that some of the effect survived in 1993.
- 1930
A photograph from the Towers shows three blocks of gardens around 1930
A photograph from about 1930, held in the collection of Thomas Langan and reproduced in the Landmarks Commission's report, looks south from the Towers. It captures a vista three blocks long through the interior gardens of three complexes: the Towers, the Chateau and the Greystone Apartments, showing the gardens lined up from block to block.
“View looking south from the Towers showing a three-block long vista of the interior gardens of the Towers, the Chateau, and the Greystone…”
Nearby
- The Towers33-27 80th Street | 2 entries
- The Towers33-51 80th Street | 1 entry
- The Towers33-40 81st Street | 1 entry
- The Towers33-28 81st Street | 2 entries
- The Towers33-15 80th Street | 2 entries
- The Chateau34-05 80th Street | 2 entries