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Offline Shelby2

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Original real estate brochures on JH buildings
« on: August 03, 2011, 08:53:14 PM »
This could also go in the Yesteryear category:

http://nyre.cul.columbia.edu/neighborhoods/view/QN28

Columbia has a website where you can find many of the original brochures, including floorplans and drawings of extreriors and gardens and architects' names, for buildings in Jackson Heights.

Here is the text of the brochure for the Warwick:

The Warwick is the newest addition to the Jackson Heights residential colony, where the charm of its traditionally exclusive neighborhood has been so eloquently preserved.  

The beautiful Queensboro Gardens are literally your own back yard.  In this suburban environment, recreational advantages are unsurpassed.  The smooth greens of the Jackson Heights Golf Course are just a step from the building, as are carefully kept tennis courts.  Within the Warwick itself, a completely equipped play room awaits your pleasure.  

All the advantages of careful planning go to surround you with comfort and luxury.  Richly carpeted lobby and halls, 24-hour doorman service, beautiful two-tone chimes replacing jangling door bells, are but a few examples.  

Transportation advantages are ideal--all three subway systems, the Triboro bus and the 5th Avenue bus are found just two blocks away.  Schools, shopping centers, churches and theatres are in the immediate vicinity.  

Here, in short, are combined all the advantages of quiet country living with the conveniences of modern city life.
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Re: Original real estate brochures on JH buildings
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2011, 09:39:51 PM »
wow. as a resident of the warwick, i wish i would have moved in a little bit earlier.  :P
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Re: Original real estate brochures on JH buildings
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2011, 09:55:54 PM »
Well, at least you still have the two-toned chimes and don't have to endure the jangling doorbells, right?  :2funny:
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Re: Original real estate brochures on JH buildings
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2011, 12:20:04 PM »
Thanks for posting these.  I just spent a half hour looking at all of the floor plans in my building (I love floor plans and was curious as to how the other apartments on my floor are laid out).  

edited to add:  it's not fair! I have an awful-sounding doorbell. It scares me every time it buzzes. I want chimes.
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Re: Original real estate brochures on JH buildings
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2011, 09:46:41 PM »
  

edited to add:  it's not fair! I have an awful-sounding doorbell. It scares me every time it buzzes. I want chimes.
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Re: Original real estate brochures on JH buildings
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2011, 04:56:38 PM »
Very cool find! I lived in the Warwick from 1979-1996, so I did get a chance to be in most of my neighbors' apartments, but fun to look at the floor plans and building description. Alas, it was too late for the golf course!
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Re: Original real estate brochures on JH buildings
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2011, 10:27:01 AM »
This is really cool, thanks for sharing!
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Re: Original real estate brochures on JH buildings
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2011, 12:37:48 PM »
Interesting article from The New York Times drawing parallels between the real estate boom-and-bust cycle of the 1920's, 30's and now.  It also references a vintage marketing brochure for a residential building located in "restricted Jackson Heights," a neighborhood that barred blacks and Jews.

In an Earlier Time of Boom and Bust, Rentals Also Gained Favor
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Re: Original real estate brochures on JH buildings
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2011, 01:21:07 PM »
at the beginning of jackson heights' development, restrictions were common. there was also an anti-catholic stance, leading to long delays in the building of st. joan of arc.
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Re: Original real estate brochures on JH buildings
« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2011, 05:16:21 PM »
Quote from: dssjh on October 19, 2011, 01:21:07 PM
at the beginning of jackson heights' development, restrictions were common. there was also an anti-catholic stance, leading to long delays in the building of st. joan of arc.


But nothing about hipsters? Or trustafarian gentrifiers?
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Re: Original real estate brochures on JH buildings
« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2011, 09:50:59 AM »
I'm really curious about the restrictions on Jewish people in the past here.  My building (Washington Plaza) has quite a few elderly residents that have been here since Day One (amazingly, I am only the second tenant to have lived in my apartment - the woman before me was there for 67 years and moved in when she was an 18 year old newlywed).  They are all Jewish.  I also remember reading that a lot of the Big Band guys lived in JH (Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey) because it was close to the studios.

How long did the restrictions last?  I think my building was built in 1939 or the very early 40s, and I know many of the first tenants were Jewish.  Maybe my building was outside of a "border line" or something. 
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