The Eldorado Apartments

37-21 80th Street | also 37-15 80th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1930

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.

1928
T. & T. Construction Corp. begins the six-story Eldorado Apartments, designed by Prober & Blaufeux
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The Eldorado Apartments, at 37-15-37-21 80th Street, was built between 1928 and 1930 for T. & T. Construction Corp. to plans by Prober & Blaufeux. It belongs to the later wave of large apartment houses in Jackson Heights, set behind a wide, shallow forecourt. Its neo-Romanesque roofline is crowded with battlements, square turrets, tile-roofed pitches, pediments and loggia-topped towers, with brick corbeling, iron balconies and scattered quoins below.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1930
The Eldorado's forecourt is entered through a gate topped by a tiny tower and guard house
Low brick walls with stone coping close off the Eldorado's entrance court from the sidewalk. Visitors pass through a whimsical brick and stone gate with squat columns, a keyed arch and a pitched tile roof, crowned by a small tower holding a guard house. The building's own front door sits inside a stone arch; by 1993 that door had been replaced and a fixed awning added over it.
“…the fanciful entrance gate with its squat columns, keyed stone arch, pitched tile roof, and small tower with a guard house…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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