Sussex House

87-10 37th Avenue | also 37-02 88th Street, 37-01 87th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1953

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.

1952
Developer J. Friedland builds Sussex House on an end-block site on 37th Avenue
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Sussex House was built in 1952-53 under permit NB 4337-1952 for the developer J. Friedland, filling the end of the block on the south side of 37th Avenue between 87th and 88th Streets. The landmarks report counts it among the apartment houses erected in Jackson Heights after World War II, which carried on the prewar habit of putting large buildings on end-block sites. The building has no storefronts, and a vehicle door on 87th Street leads to a basement garage.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1953
Julius Fishkin designs seven-story Sussex House in a late Moderne style with marble-framed doors
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Architect Julius Fishkin split the seven-story building's avenue front into four sections with three deep lightcourts, placing the main entrance in the middle court. His late version of the Moderne style plays subtle horizontal bands of brick against plain brick piers that run from the base up to the parapet. The main doorway is framed in white marble, with plate-glass doors and side walls.
“…the building is distinguished by the horizontal expression of subtle brick banding and by the contrasting verticality of abstracted brick piers…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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