35-23 86th Street
Jackson Heights | built 1990
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1927
A 1927 Charles Stidolph house stands on the site of today's 35-23 86th Street
Before the present building, this stretch of the east side of 86th Street held some of the twelve single-family houses that Queens architect Charles Stidolph designed for the block, built in 1927. The row of five attached houses now at 35-17 to 35-25 took the place of three of those twelve.
- 1990
Acapulco Realty Corp. completes 35-23 86th Street as part of a Post-Modern row of five
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No. 35-23 is one of five four-story brick houses at 35-17 to 35-25 86th Street, filed in 1988 and finished in 1990 for the developer Acapulco Realty Corp. The firm Fakler/Eliason Associates designed them with red brick, pseudo-Palladian windows and pediments along the roofline, and a garage door at the base of each house. The Landmarks Preservation Commission counted the row as one of three similar groups on this block.
- 1993
The Landmarks Commission faults the 1980s houses that replaced 86th Street's razed homes
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In its 1993 report designating the Jackson Heights Historic District, the Landmarks Preservation Commission recorded that several private houses on this block of 86th Street, from 35th to 37th Avenue, were torn down in the 1980s. It wrote that the attached houses built in their place met the zoning rules of the day but kept few of the features that set the demolished houses apart.
“A number of private houses on 86th Street between 35th and 37th Avenues were razed; the new attached houses erected on the sites…”
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- 35-21 86th Street1 entry
- 35-25 86th Street3 entries
- 35-19 86th Street2 entries
- 35-29 86th Street2 entries
- 35-17 86th Street2 entries
- 35-15 86th Street1 entry