Ivy Court

83-02 34th Avenue | also 34-09 83rd Street | Jackson Heights | built 1924

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

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1924
Andrew J. Thomas designs Ivy Court around a hidden inner garden
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Ivy Court went up in 1924 for the Hayes Ave. 26 St. Corp., one of three small garden-apartment groups that Andrew J. Thomas placed on block ends in the mid-1920s, with Hayes Court and Cedar Court. Its two U-shaped, four-story brick buildings wrap an inner garden entered through barrel-vaulted passages on 83rd and 84th Streets. Towers, open loggias and Spanish-tile roofs carry over the Mediterranean look of the Towers, Thomas's much larger and slightly earlier complex.
“Built in 1924, Ivy Court is one of three smaller garden apartment projects designed by Andrew J. Thomas in the mid-1920s…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1924
Ivy Court's completion marks the Queensboro Corporation's turn from selling co-ops to renting apartments
When Ivy Court was finished in 1924, the Queensboro Corporation, developer of Jackson Heights, began renting its apartments to people who could not afford to buy, instead of selling them as cooperatives. According to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, buyers were also resisting the prices of the firm's garden-apartment units, which had become steadily more elaborate and costly to build. That year the company also shifted toward groups of one- and two-family houses.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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