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1. www.jhbg.org › resourcesA History of Jackson Heights - JHBG

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   By the 1970s the future of New York City and of Jackson Heights was uncertain. New York City’s fiscal crisis, combined with rising inflation and interest rates that reached a high of 20%, resulted in widespread severe problems for the city. Interest rates began to drop in 1982, though, and a time of economic expansion began.

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3. 6tocelebrate.org › neighborhoods › jackson-heightsJackson Heights - Historic Districts Council's Six to Celebrate

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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

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4. architecturaltrust.org › easements › about-the-trustJackson Heights Historic District - architecturaltrust.org

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   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 ...

5. ny.curbed.com › jackson-heights-queens-historyThe transformation of Jackson Heights - Curbed NY

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   Apr 19, 2017 · On the Flushing line’s opening day, April 21, 1917, the New York Times pointed out that from the new elevated tracks, one could see the “splendid apartment house development of the Queensboro ...

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6. www.bbc.com › travel › articleJackson Heights: The neighbourhood that epitomises New York - BBC

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   Mar 22, 2023 · Jackson Heights: The neighbourhood that epitomises New York (Credit: Richard Levine/Alamy) Travellers may go to Central Park or Times Square to see New York City, but there's no better place to ...

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7. mpcproperties.com › jackson-heights-historyJackson Heights History - MPC Properties

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   Development and Early History of Jackson Heights in Queens, New York The post-Colonial history of Jackson Heights begins with its development from farmland and duck ponds in the early 20th century. Beginning in 1909, Edward A. MacDougall’s Queensboro Corporation and his architects founded and planned, built or allowed to be built, and then controlled Jackson Heights for over 1/3-century.

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   How did Jackson Heights become a colonial city?

   • The post-Colonial history of Jackson Heights begins with its development from farmland and duck ponds in the early 20th century. Beginning in 1909, Edward A. MacDougall’s Queensboro Corporation and his architects founded and planned, built or allowed to be built, and then controlled Jackson Heights for over 1/3-century.

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   When did Jackson Heights become a historic district?

   • In 1993 the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to designate roughly 36 blocks of Jackson Heights as a historic district. At the time, Jackson Heights was just the second historic district in Queens, and one of the largest in the city.

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   When did major development start in Jackson Heights?

   • Major development didn’t really take off in Jackson Heights until 1917, when the elevated IRT Flushing line (today’s 7 train) reached the neighborhood. Through the Queensboro Corporation, MacDougall—who understood that accessible transportation was the key to the area’s success—lobbied to get the stalled subway project off the ground.

   The transformation of Jackson Heights - Curbed NY

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   What influenced Jackson Heights?

   • It remains the largest community ever built under one developer’s control in New York City.Jackson Heights was cross-influenced by several movements: New York housing reform at the close of the 19th century and the British Garden City Movement at the dawn of the 20th century.

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   Who built Jackson Heights?

   • Beginning in 1909, Edward A. MacDougall’s Queensboro Corporation and his architects founded and planned, built or allowed to be built, and then controlled Jackson Heights for over 1/3-century. It is the nation’s first and largest planned cooperative and garden apartment community.

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   When did black people move to Jackson Heights?

   • As early as the 1920s, in Northern cities like New York, as many as three white residents left urban areas for every black person who moved in. Jackson Heights, while technically a part of New York City, was being sold as a suburb—an antidote to urban Manhattan.

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9. history.blog.fordham.eduListening to the History of Jackson Heights, America’s First ...

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   May 24, 2016 · The first centered on the historic character and associated preservation of Jackson Heights. Mainly built between the Two World Wars, the planned community of Jackson Heights had been constructed as a city within a city intended for those commuting to work in Manhattan. Designed and built under the tenets of the Garden Movement, Jackson Heights ...