William Penn Apartments

79-10 35th Avenue | also 35-01 79th Street, 35-02 80th Street, 79-06 35th Avenue | Jackson Heights | built 1952

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

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1951
Oscar I. Silverstone designs the William Penn Apartments for developer H. Osias
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Built in 1951-52 for the developer H. Osias, this six-story building was among a number of apartment houses put up in Jackson Heights after World War II. Oscar I. Silverstone gave it light courts at all four corners and a recessed entrance court on 35th Avenue. Its Georgian touches are limited to brick corner quoins and two wooden porches with iron railings in the court; the porch on the east side was later rebuilt. A one-story garage stands at the back, on the rear alley.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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