35-24 78th Street

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

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1938
Philip Birnbaum designs a neo-Georgian apartment house with modernistic touches
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The developer Berkeley Gardens put up this six-story-and-basement building in 1938 (NB 315-1938) to plans by Philip Birnbaum, who later became known for modern apartment houses after World War II. Two lightcourts divide its long 78th Street front into three parts, with full-height three-sided bays. Pediments, quoin-like brickwork and a swagged entrance canopy recall Georgian design, while the angled bays, stylized brick banding and geometric balconette railings lean modern. Its block had earlier been meant for a single Queensboro Corporation project by Ernest Flagg, halted once the foundations were in as buyers resisted rising garden-apartment prices.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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