Greystone Apartments

35-22 80th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1918

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

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1918
The Greystone row alternates two portal designs, one with diamond panels and one with quatrefoils
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The fourteen Greystone buildings look alike but come in two alternating types. The "A" type has three diamond-shaped panels over the portal, V-profile pilasters with pyramidal finials, a triangular pediment and diaperwork brick at the top story. The "B" type has five quatrefoil panels, round pilasters with cylindrical finials, and a squared pediment with a stone parapet. This building was filed under permit NB 4167-1916.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1918
Each Greystone covers about 38 percent of its lot, leaving a continuous garden behind the row
Each T-shaped Greystone building takes up roughly 38 percent of a lot about 63 by 100 feet. Joined together, the buildings form U-shaped courts that open onto the unbuilt rear of the lots, which were treated as a single undivided garden behind each blockfront. Wells faced the rear walls in beige brick so the pale surface would bounce daylight into the courtyards.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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