The Woodstock Apartments

34-49 81st Street | also 81-05 35th Avenue, 81-15 35th Avenue | Jackson Heights | built 1949

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1949
Woodstock House Inc. builds the Woodstock Apartments after World War II
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Woodstock House Inc. put up the six-story Woodstock Apartments at 81-01 to 81-15 35th Avenue, also known as 34-49 81st Street, in 1949 under permit No. 1893-1949, with Philip Birnbaum as architect. It was one of several buildings that filled vacant Jackson Heights lots after the war, set on an L-shaped site with wide lightcourts, a basement garage and three entrances, including one set in the 81st Street court.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1949
Philip Birnbaum keeps the Woodstock's Georgian touches to its entrance porches
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Birnbaum's design for the Woodstock is plain brick, with Georgian-inspired ornament confined to flat-roofed entrance porches projecting into the corners of the courts. Low picket fences enclose the planted strips around the building. The original cornice was later replaced with a corrugated metal parapet, as the 1993 historic district report recorded.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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