Livingston Apartments

35-65 86th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1953

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

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1953
Schulman & Soloway design the six-story Livingston Apartments for 86th St. Apts. Inc.
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The Livingston Apartments were built in 1952-53 (NB 4757-1952) for the owners 86th St. Apts. Inc. to designs by the architects Schulman & Soloway, at the northeast corner of 86th Street and 37th Avenue, one of several apartment houses added to Jackson Heights after World War II. Its plain brick front has corner quoins and a beltcourse at the base, and a deep lightcourt on 86th Street serves as the entry court, where wood double doors sit in a veined marble frame. A garage occupies the basement, and there are no shops on the 37th Avenue side.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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