Colonial Apartments
34-39 82nd Street | Jackson Heights | built 1916
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1916
The Colonial Apartments join Wells's string of walk-ups along 82nd Street
After Laurel Court (1913-14), Oban and Penrhyn Courts (1914-15) and Willow Court (1915), the Colonial Apartments of 1915-16 were the next of George H. Wells's apartment groups on 82nd Street, followed by the Plymouth Apartments in 1916. The street was the main route between the trolley stop on Northern Boulevard and the elevated station on Roosevelt Avenue, and the Queensboro Corporation aimed these buildings at people commuting to factory jobs in Long Island City.
“…the Colonial Apartments (1915-16), and the Plymouth Apartments (1916), all of which were erected along 82nd Street, the main thoroughfare linking the trolley stop…”
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