Dunolly Gardens

34-40 79th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1939

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.

1939
Dunolly Gardens takes over the neighborhood's old golf course
Dunolly Gardens, including this building, was built on land that had been the neighborhood's golf course, one of the community's open spaces. The Landmarks Preservation Commission counts it among the more than a dozen large apartment complexes finished during the 1930s that filled leftover sites, both the avenue ends of earlier garden apartment blocks and open spaces like the golf course.
“…filling in some of the sites at the avenue ends of the garden apartment complexes and open spaces such as the golf course (Dunolly Gardens)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1993
The landmarks commission notes the loss of this building's parapet
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When the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Jackson Heights Historic District in 1993, it listed Nos. 34-40 to 34-42 79th Street as part of Dunolly Gardens, built under permit NB 7767-1938. The changes it recorded in the six-building complex were the removal of a parapet at this building and new tall iron fences where the garden entrances are.
“Alterations include the removal of a parapet at No. 34-40 79th Street and the addition of tall iron fences at the entrances to the gardens.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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