Roosevelt Terrace
35-51 85th Street | also 35-11 85th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1954
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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.
- 1954
Roosevelt Terrace's E-shaped towers open onto long terraces with pale green railings
Philip Birnbaum designed Roosevelt Terrace as three matching nine-story E-shaped buildings running diagonally from 35th Avenue toward 37th Avenue, with the long side of each E facing south, and a fourth on the west side of 85th Street. The brick buildings carry continuous terraces with pale green wrought-iron railings between plain end pavilions, and glass entrance doors under curved metal-trimmed marquees. Two surface parking lots off 86th Street sit between the buildings over two underground garages entered from 85th Street.
Nearby
- 35-65 85th Street1 entry
- 85-25 37th Avenue1 entry
- Roosevelt Terrace35-50 85th Street | 1 entry
- Roosevelt Terrace35-31 85th Street | 2 entries
- 35-45 86th Street2 entries
- 35-53 86th Street3 entries