Roosevelt Terrace

35-11 85th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1954

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

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1954
Roosevelt Terrace is completed on a former playground, its buildings set diagonally across the block
Riverbank Realty Corp. finished Roosevelt Terrace in 1954 on what had been a playground: four nine-story, E-shaped apartment buildings in the International Style by Philip Birnbaum. Three of them run diagonally across the block between 85th and 86th streets, the long side of each E facing south, and a fourth stands across 85th Street. Parking lots between the buildings sit above two underground garages, and landscaped grounds and a park fill the rest of the site. Its construction followed a post-war pattern of building over Jackson Heights' open spaces, such as the former golf course and tennis courts.
“This project was built on the site of a playground.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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