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History of Housing in New York City, Richard Plunz, page 174-180 (that includes original photos of the La Mesa Verde Apartments) Jackson Heights – A Garden in the City, Daniel Karatzas pages 79-81; Robert A.M. Stern, “The New York Apartment House” Via Volume #4 1980 page 83; Queensboro Magazine November 1925 page 642
Oct 19, 1993 · Designated October 19, 1993. The Jackson Heights Historic District, built primarily between 1914 and 1939, is the nation’s first and largest planned cooperative and garden apartment community. Brick structures in a mixture of sizes from single-family homes to large apartment buildings exhibit a number of revival styles including Tudor ...
The Jackson Heights Historic District is a residential development built in the early part of the 20th century, primarily between the 1910s and early 1950s. Jackson Heights was conceived, designed, and built by the Queensboro Corporation as a garden city. This unique design concept treated each block as an individual design unit, rather than as ...
Jul 15, 2013 · Images of America: Jackson Heights shows the history of the neighborhood, from small farms and dirt roads to an airport and major thoroughfares, through more than 100 photos.
Apr 15, 2006 · JACKSON HEIGHTS and EAST ELMHURST, Queens. April 15, 2006. In a borough largely ignored by NYC’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, the magnificent garden apartments of Jackson Heights are a happy exception. Today’s Jackson Heights is a neighborhood of handsome six-story co-operative apartments, most of which surround a central garden.
More. Jackson Heights is an early-20th-century neighborhood in central Queens, composed of low-rise garden apartments and houses as well as institutional and commercial buildings. It was the first and remains the largest garden-apartment community in the United States— the product of both the early 20th-century model tenement and the Garden ...
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Mar 22, 2023 · It's hard to nail down exact numbers, but Jackson Heights is thought to be home to roughly 180,000 people who speak at least 160 languages. Sebastian Modak; mural by Erick Teran