Built in 1936-37 based on designs by architect Joshua Tabatchnik, The Belvedere is among the later apartment buildings erected in the Jackson Heights Historic District.
Faced in brick with stone trim, The Belvedere is neo-Romanesque in style. The six-story-and-basement structure is complex in its massing, having towers of various forms, gabled end bays, and projecting angled bays in the lightcourts. The square towers flanking the entrance pavilion on 35th Avenue are pierced by arcaded loggias and topped with red tile roofs on bracketed eaves. Polygonal towers and smaller square towers flank the lightcourts on the side streets. The arcaded entrance porch, with its tiled roof, shelters an arched stone doorway containing glass double-doors with iron grilles. Other elements of Romanesque inspiration include round-arched windows in stone enframements with engaged colonnettes, stone balconettes, patterned brickwork, corbels, and corner quoins.
Source: New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Report, October 19, 1993.
The building has a total of 84 apartments ranging from studios to three-bedroom units.
The resident amenities include:
- Live-in superintendent
- Laundry room (renovated in 2021)
- Storage: personal and bicycle
- Multi-Purpose Room with kitchenette
- Amazon Key for Business (for package drop-off at residents’ doors)
- Special monthly rate for TV and Internet from Spectrum (as well as access to Verizon FIOS)
- Private interior garden
