Linden Court

37-60 85th Street | also 37-56 85th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1921

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.

1917
November
Edward MacDougall announces a whole block of garden apartments on 84th and 85th Streets
In November 1917 Queensboro Corporation president Edward A. MacDougall said plans were being drawn for a full block of garden apartments by Andrew J. Thomas between Roosevelt and 37th Avenues, the future Linden Court, including 37-56 and 37-60 85th Street. Work did not start until mid-1919, slowed by World War I and trouble raising money. The Title Guarantee & Trust Company eventually lent about $500,000, an investment of $900,000 counting the land.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1919
Linden Court opens Jackson Heights' first garages and its first co-op plan
Built in 1919-21 by the Jackson Heights Apt. Corp., Linden Court, including 37-56 and 37-60 85th Street (permit NB 2603-1919), was the first complex in Jackson Heights with parking: the passages between buildings serve as driveways to one-story garages at the rear. It was also the first to offer cooperative ownership, and its back-to-back plan around a common garden became the model for later garden apartment blocks.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

Nearby