Cedar Court

83-01 35th Avenue | also 83-09 35th Avenue | Jackson Heights | built 1925

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.

1924
The Queensboro Corporation begins Cedar Court in its yearly building campaign
After Linden Court, the Queensboro Corporation started a major garden apartment project in Jackson Heights each year, and in 1924 it began Cedar Court, Ivy Court and the Spanish Gardens, all by Andrew J. Thomas. State laws passed in 1920 and 1923 that gave new construction a ten-year exemption from real estate taxes encouraged these yearly campaigns.
“…and Ivy Court, Cedar Court, and the Spanish Gardens (Thomas, begun 1924). These yearly building campaigns were encouraged by the passage of state legislation…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
Cedar Court borrows the Towers' Mediterranean towers, loggias and Spanish tile roofs
Built in 1924-25 for the Fillmore Building Corp., Cedar Court is a single four-story brick building divided by party walls into several units with multiple entrances, all opening off a garden court reached through an iron gate on 35th Avenue. Its avenue wings carry towers over the stair halls, arcaded loggias on the top story with statues at their corners, and Spanish-tile roofs, echoing Thomas's larger Towers complex. Many of its original wood windows remain.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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