Lawrence House Apartments

81-06 34th Avenue | 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
Philip Birnbaum designs the Lawrence House Apartments after World War II
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Lawrence House Inc. built this six-story apartment house at 81-02 to 81-06 34th Avenue in 1950-51 to designs by Philip Birnbaum. Like the prewar buildings around it, it centers a recessed entrance court on 34th Avenue and runs a long areaway with lightcourts along 81st Street, and it has a garage in the basement. Its plain brick walls carry only sparing Georgian touches, mainly some brick patterning and a pilastered entrance porch topped by an iron railing.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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