Linden Court

37-45 84th Street | also 37-51 84th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1921

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

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1919
Linden Court opens Queensboro's plan for cooperative ownership of its apartments
Starting with Linden Court, begun in 1919, the Queensboro Corporation offered buyers cooperative ownership of apartments and turned existing rental buildings in Jackson Heights into cooperatives. The landmarks report credits these conversions with setting the legal precedent for co-op conversions, which later had a large effect on New York City's real estate market. Most of the buildings Queensboro put up afterward were sold under its cooperative plan.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1919
Title Guarantee & Trust provides about $500,000 to build Linden Court
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Financing for Linden Court finally came from the Title Guarantee & Trust Company, which supplied roughly $500,000. With the value of the land, the project represented a $900,000 investment, according to a New York Times report of May 25, 1919. Construction began in the middle of that year, after a delay the landmarks report attributes to World War I and the difficulty of finding financing.
“Financing was eventually provided by the Title Guarantee & Trust Company for approximately $500,000 which, along with the value of the land, represented an investment of $900,000.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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