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Thursday, May 27, 2021 – A REBUILD OF A LANDMARK OF CARE TO NEW HOMES

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THURSDAY, MAY 27, 2021

The

374th Edition

THE REBIRTH OF

TRIBORO

FROM ABANDONED

TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL 

FOR REALLY AFFORDABLE

HOUSING FOR 124 FAMILIES

A FEW YEARS AGO PHOTOGRAPHER CHARLES GIRAUDET AND I DISCOVERED THE BEAUTY OF TRIBORO HOSPITAL.  TRIBORO OPENED IN THE LATE 1930’S AS A SPECIALIST IN TUBERCULOSIS. OVER THE YEARS THE BUILDING WAS  RARELY USED AND DETERIORATED.  BUILT IN THE SAME TIME AND OPEN, AIRY STYLE, THIS GEM HAS BEEN PRESERVED AND WILL BE THE NEW HOME FOR HUNDREDS OF NEW YORKERS.

Details

Welcome to the T Building, a newly converted 10-story architectural gem, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1938, the T Building was a cutting-edge hospital to treat, heal and restore ailing New Yorkers before this complete restoration and conversion into affordable apartments. The T Building residence will have many amenities for residents to enjoy including a 24-hour attended front desk, restored library and computer room, community room, tv room, restored auditorium community room, outdoor sun terraces, laundry room, gymnasium, playground, parking lot (fee will apply) and private balconies (for select units). 124 newly constructed apartments are available with preferences for municipal employees and Queens Community Board 8 members. Tenants are responsible for electricity while hot water and gas are included in the rent. To request an application by mail, please send a self-addressed stamped envelope to T Building c/o P.O. Box 1187 New York, NY 10039

Affordable Housing Program

This building is being constructed through the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program and Supportive Housing Loan Program of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. On-site social services will be available to all tenants who choose to participate in them

The 1930’s tones of beiges and browns are still evident.

The original library, that we visited held thousands of books and periodicals on pulmonary diseases.

The open site and plenty of light will be a wonderful setting for residents as it was for those who recovered here.

Is there room without Foosball?

The original elevators lead to new homes.

Many odd shaped rooms were carved out of the buildings design.

Space for the family

Enjoy your terrace

A studio for one.

AS THE BUILDING WAS BEING GUTTED, INCLUDING THE MASSIVE KITCHEN (LOWER LEFT)

THURSDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
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WEDNESDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

This is the Harlem River Lift Bridge. The Harlem River Lift Bridge (also known as the Park Avenue Bridge) is a vertical lift bridge carrying the Metro-North Railroad’s Hudson Line, Harlem Line, and New Haven Line across the Harlem River between the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx in New York City. Between 1954 and 1956, the New York Central Railroad built the current bridge, which was the forth rail bridge on this site, this time a vertical-lift bridge, to replace the 1897 bridge. The new bridge opened in 1956.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_River_Lift_Bridge

ED LITCHER, TOM VISEE, ANDY SPARBERG, JAY JACOBSON ALL GOT IT

Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Melanie Colter  and Deborah Dorff
All image are copyrighted (c)

Sources

STEPHEN BLANK 

https://nj.gov/state/historical/assets/pdf/it-happened-here/ihhnj-er-ft-lee-studios.pdf

http://www.warburgrealty.com/nabes/before-hollywood-there-was-astoria/

Richard Koszarski, An Evening’s Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture 1915-1928 (1990)
Richard Koszarski, The Astoria Studio and Its Fabulous Films (1983)

https://www.qgazette.com/articles/lights-camera-astoria-highlights-filmmaking-in-queens/

FUNDING PROVIDED BY ROOSEVELT ISLAND OPERATING CORPORATION PUBLIC PURPOSE GRANTS CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE BEN KALLOS DISCRETIONARY FUNDING THRU DYCD

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