East Gate Apartments
35-54 83rd Street | Jackson Heights | built 1937
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1937
The 82-83 St. Corp. builds East Gate as the back-to-back partner of West Gate
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Miller & Goldhammer designed East Gate on 83rd Street and its near-twin West Gate on 82nd Street for the 82-83 St. Corp., and both went up in 1937. The six-story-and-basement pair stand back to back in the middle of the block, among the later apartment houses of the historic district. Each has a recessed court that serves as entrance and lightcourt and splits its street front into two parts.
- 1937
East Gate wears neo-Tudor details alongside up-to-date corner windows
East Gate's brick walls carry neo-Tudor stonework: Tudor-arched doorways, label lintels, peaked gables, bands carved with quatrefoils, pointed-arch balustrades around the entry court, and stone quoins set at random in the brick. In a nod to the late 1930s it also has corner windows and stepped parapets, and ornamental iron fire escapes inside the light wells.
“Characteristic of the period, the buildings also have corner windows and stepped parapets.”
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