The Greenbrier Apartments

35-49 83rd Street | Jackson Heights | built 1950

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

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1949
The Queensboro Corporation builds the Greenbrier in Jackson Heights' postwar wave
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The Queensboro Corporation built the three-story Greenbrier Apartments in 1949-50 to designs by Boris Dorfman. It is one of several apartment houses added to the neighborhood after World War II. Small for the district, it sits mid-block with a narrow front garden and a deep central court that serves as both its entrance and its lightcourt.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1950
Boris Dorfman gives the Greenbrier spare neo-Georgian trim
Boris Dorfman kept the Greenbrier's Georgian-inspired ornament modest: a brick water table and band courses, wooden shutters, and a parapet pierced by openings fitted with geometric iron screens. The landmarks report of 1993 found its first six-over-six wooden sash and its multi-pane wood-and-glass double doors and transom still in place, though the pediment over the entrance had been removed.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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