Cypress Avenue East Historic District

Roughly bounded by Linden and Cornelia Sts., Seneca and St. Nicholas Aves., New York, New York. County/parish: Queens.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 30, 1983. NRIS 83001767.

247 contributing buildings.

From Wikipedia:

Cypress Avenue East Historic District

Cypress Avenue East Historic District is a national historic district in Ridgewood, Queens, New York. It includes 247 contributing buildings built between 1900 and 1914. They consist mainly of three story tenements with two apartments per floor. They feature alternating facades of light and dark speckled brick.

The district boundaries were drawn to exclude commercial and frame construction buildings, and include the following addresses:

Linden Street
- 16-66 to 16-92
- 17-02 to 17-40
Cypress Avenue
- 654, 664
Gates Avenue
- 16-73 to 16-91
- 16-74 to 16-94
- 17-01 to 17-21
- 17-02 to 17-22
Palmetto Street
- 16-63 to 16-83
- 17-01 to 17-21
- 17-02 to 17-22
Woodbine Street
- 16-61 to 16-83
- 16-62 to 16-84
- 17-01 to 17-21
- 17-02 to 17-26
Seneca Avenue
- 652 to 668
- 784 to 790
- 802 to 816
Madison Street
- 17-01 to 17-25
- 17-10 to 17-28
Cornelia Street
- 17-19 to 17-33

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314444