Winslow Apartments

80-08 35th Avenue | also 35-01 80th Street, 35-02 81st Street | Jackson Heights | built 1951

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

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1950
Juco Realty Corp. develops the Winslow Apartments on an end-block site on 35th Avenue
The six-story Winslow Apartments went up in 1950-51 for the developer Juco Realty Corp. (NB 6986-1950), filling the 35th Avenue end of the block between 80th and 81st Streets. It was one of several large apartment houses built in Jackson Heights after World War II, carrying on the pre-war habit of a deep entrance court on the avenue and lightcourts on the side streets. A rear alley leads to a garage in the basement.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1951
Philip Birnbaum dresses the Winslow's plain brick walls with a few Georgian touches
Architect Philip Birnbaum kept the Winslow's brick facades spare, adding only a small dose of Georgian-inspired trim. The main features are a little wood entrance porch whose classical columns hold up an entablature, cast-stone lunettes over the windows above that porch, and stringcourses running across the first, fifth and sixth stories. The Landmarks Preservation Commission classes the design as post-war neo-Georgian.
“…the small wood entrance porch with classical columns supporting an entablature; cast-stone lunettes above the windows over the porch; and stringcourses at the first, fifth and sixth stories.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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