Greystone Apartments

35-15 80th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1918

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1916

    George H. Wells designs the Greystone Apartments, the first garden apartment complex in Jackson Heights

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    This is one of fourteen five-story-and-basement buildings George H. Wells designed for the Jackson Heights Apartment Corp., seven facing seven across 80th Street from 35th to 37th Avenue, built 1916-18. The landmarks report calls the group the first garden apartment complex in Jackson Heights. It was at first named the Garden Apartments, and its street fronts are faced in gray brick. No. 35-15 was filed under permit NB 4166-1916 together with Nos. 35-21, 35-27 and 35-33.

    “…the Greystone Apartments was the first of the garden apartment complexes to be built in Jackson Heights. The complex -- at first named the Garden Apartments…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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