Dunolly Gardens

78-11 35th Avenue | also 34-68 79th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1939

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1939

    Dunolly Gardens fills the open ground of the old Jackson Heights golf course

    During the 1930s more than a dozen large apartment complexes were completed in what is now the Jackson Heights Historic District, many on vacant lots at the avenue ends of the older garden-apartment blocks. Others took over open land, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission names the neighborhood golf course as the ground that Dunolly Gardens filled.

    “…filling in some of the sites at the avenue ends of the garden apartment complexes and open spaces such as the golf course (Dunolly Gardens)…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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