35-19 86th Street

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1990
No. 35-19 is finished in 1990 with a pseudo-Palladian window and roofline pediment
No. 35-19 belongs to a five-house group of four-story brick homes that Fakler/Eliason Associates designed for Acapulco Realty Corp. and completed in 1990 under a 1988 permit. Its Post-Modern facade borrows older motifs: red brick, a pseudo-Palladian window and a pediment at the top, with a garage entrance at the base. The group is one of three similar ones built on this block between 1987 and 1992.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1993
The Landmarks Commission finds the new 86th Street houses, including No. 35-19, lack their predecessors' character
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The 1993 designation report for the Jackson Heights Historic District noted that a number of single-family homes on the 86th Street block between 35th and 37th Avenues had been torn down in the 1980s. It found that the attached houses put up in their place, a group that includes No. 35-19, met the zoning rules of the time but showed few of the features that set the older houses apart. The report treated this as part of a small amount of recent change in the district.
“…the new attached houses erected on the sites of the demolished houses, though complying with the then-existing zoning codes, exhibit few of the elements…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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