The Madison Apartments

35-06 88th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1937

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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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  1. 1937

    David Isaacowitz & Sons build the six-story Madison Apartments, designed by Cohn Brothers

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    The developers David Isaacowitz & Sons put up the Madison Apartments in 1937 (new-building application 577 of 1937) on an end-of-block site facing 35th Avenue. Designed by the Cohn Brothers, the six-story building with basement was one of the later apartment houses in what became the Jackson Heights Historic District. It shares its 35th Avenue frontage with the Jacksonian Apartments next door to the west, also a Cohn Brothers design, built a year earlier.

    “Built in 1937 to designs by the Cohn Brothers, the six-story-and-basement Madison Apartments is among the later apartment buildings erected in the historic district.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1937

    The Madison wraps a deep entrance court in brick and white neo-Georgian trim

    The Madison is planned around a large recessed entrance court facing 88th Street, with a shallow recess on 35th Avenue holding a three-sided bay that rises the full height of the building. Its neo-Georgian brick front has white trim, a doorway framed by fluted pilasters under a broken scrolled pediment, brick quoins and band courses, stone keystones and false fanlights, and temple-front motifs on the upper floors ending in triangular pediments with oculi and balustraded parapets.

    “…the door surround with fluted pilasters and a broken scrolled pediment and the flanking windows with multi-pane arched sash…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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