The Delano
34-44 82nd Street | Jackson Heights | built 1937
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- 1937
The Delano Building Co. puts up the six-story Delano on 82nd Street
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The Delano Apartments at 34-44 82nd Street were built in 1937 for the Delano Building Co. from designs by the Cohn Brothers (permit NB 578-1937). Like other late Jackson Heights apartment houses, it fills a large mid-block lot, with a deep entrance court splitting its street front into two sections and the main door set in a full-height three-sided bay.
- 1993
The Delano's neo-Georgian front loses the tips of its rooftop pediments
The red brick Delano is dressed in neo-Georgian details: an entrance with engaged columns and a broken pediment, small oval windows, mock brick quoins and tall brick pilasters. When the landmarks report was written, its parapet had been rebuilt and the projecting parts of the roofline pediments removed, The entrance has double wood-and-glass doors under a transom, and iron fences between brick pedestals close off the court.
“…the parapet has been rebuilt and the projecting portions of the pediments have been removed…”
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