Greystone Apartments

35-47 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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1917
The Greystones mark Wells's move to smaller footprints and shared gardens
The Landmarks Preservation Commission described the Greystone Apartments, built 1917-18, as a break from George H. Wells's earlier Laurel Court because they covered less of each lot and set aside space for gardens. Wells arranged the buildings in two facing rows of unbroken masonry, with a continuous landscaped garden behind each blockfront.
“…mark a departure from the architect's earlier Laurel Court in the reduction of lot coverage and allocation of garden space…”
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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