Spanish Gardens
37-20 84th Street | also 37-16 84th Street, 37-24 84th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1926
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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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- 1924
Spanish Gardens rises in Queensboro's yearly building drive, spurred by tax exemptions
Spanish Gardens, begun in 1924 to Andrew J. Thomas's design, was one of the garden apartment projects the Queensboro Corporation launched each year after Linden Court, alongside Thomas's Ivy Court and Cedar Court that same year. State laws passed in 1920 and 1923 encouraged these annual campaigns by exempting new buildings from real estate taxes for ten years. Metropolitan Life, a major backer of Queensboro, had loaned the company almost $8,000,000 by 1922.
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