The Litchfield Apartments

35-43 84th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1940

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.

1939
Henry Friedland builds the Litchfield Apartments to designs by Joshua Tabatchnik
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Developer Henry Friedland put up the six-story Litchfield Apartments in 1939-40 from plans by Joshua Tabatchnik, making it one of the later apartment houses in the Jackson Heights Historic District. The long street front is broken into four sections by three recessed lightcourts, and the widest, central one serves as the entrance court. Its neo-Georgian brick facade carries quoin-like brickwork, dentils, Palladian window heads, notched gables and a basket-arched entrance with a leaded transom.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1939
The Litchfield takes a colonial-sounding name like several 1930s Jackson Heights apartment houses
The Landmarks Preservation Commission notes that many 1930s apartment buildings in Jackson Heights carried names pointing to early American history, matching their neo-Georgian styling. Alongside Georgian Hall, Georgian Gardens, Colonial Arms, Mt. Vernon and Jefferson Hall, it lists The Litchfield, which it suggests was probably named for the colonial town in Connecticut.
“The Litchfield (presumably after the colonial town in Connecticut)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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