Greystone Apartments

35-33 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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1916
A 1916 permit covers this building, one of fourteen Greystone apartment houses by George H. Wells
This five-story building went up under new-building permit 4166-1916, filed in 1916 together with 35-15, 35-21 and 35-27 80th Street. The architect was George H. Wells and the developer the Jackson Heights Apartment Corporation. The fourteen buildings, seven facing seven across 80th Street between 35th and 37th Avenues, were finished in 1918.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1918
The Garden Apartments, later renamed the Greystones for their gray face brick, are completed
When the Queensboro Corporation commissioned this row and its twin across 80th Street, it called the group the Garden Apartments. The name later changed to the Greystone Apartments, a reference to the gray face brick on the street fronts. The rear walls facing the gardens were laid in a lighter beige brick whose pale tone reflects daylight into the courtyards.
“At first named the Garden Apartments and later the Greystone Apartments (after the gray face brick), the group (built 1917-18)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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