Greystone Apartments

35-27 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.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1916
One 1916 permit covers this building and three Greystone neighbors on the east side of 80th Street
No. 35-27 was filed in 1916 under permit NB 4166-1916, which also covered Nos. 35-15, 35-21 and 35-33 80th Street; Nos. 35-41, 35-47 and 35-55 were filed under NB 3592-1916. All were part of George H. Wells's Greystone Apartments for the Jackson Heights Apartment Corp., built 1916-18. The gardens behind each row cannot be seen from the sidewalk and are reached through passages at the ends of the blockfronts.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1993
Original four-over-one wood windows survive in most Greystone buildings at the 1993 designation
The Greystones are faced in gray brick above stone basements, with keyed stone trim around the windows and beige brick on the garden side. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Jackson Heights Historic District in 1993, its report found the original four-over-one wood sash windows still in most of the fourteen buildings, some behind storm sash.
“Original four-over-one wood sash windows survive in most of the buildings (some are covered with storm sash).”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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