Berkeley Apartments

35-25 77th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1936

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

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1936
Joshua Tabatchnik designs the Berkeley Apartments for developer M. Goetz
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Built in 1936 under New Building permit 5568, the six-story Berkeley Apartments fills a large mid-block lot, its long front divided into three parts by two lightcourts with full-height three-sided bays. Joshua Tabatchnik drew it in a neo-Georgian style of red brick and white trim at about the same time as his Berkeley Gardens around the corner on 35th Avenue.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1993
The Berkeley Apartments has lost several of its original pediments by 1993
When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described the building for the 1993 Jackson Heights Historic District, the broken pediment over its classical entrance surround was gone. The arched pediments that once sat above the second-story windows had also been taken off, though urns, brick quoins and gabled dormers over the central recess remained.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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