JACKSON HEIGHTS — The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission has finally scheduled hearings for dozens of locations that had been removed last year after a backlog, including two neighborhood apartment buildings.
The commission will hold four hearings, separated by borough, starting Oct. 8 in Queens, The Bronx and Brooklyn.
Two Jackson Heights locations — the Spanish Towers on 75th Street and the Fairway Apartments on 34th Avenue — are expected to be on the agenda.
Both were submitted for landmark status years ago, but had been delayed.
The list included apartment buildings, churches and the iconic Pepsi-Cola sign in Long Island City.
The Fairway Apartments were built in 1937 and are named for the golf course that once stood on the property. While many architects at the time turned to art-deco style, the Fairway is built in a Tudor style, researchers wrote in its landmark application.
Hearings on its consideration for landmarking were first held in 1990, and again in 2011.
It's not clear which architect built the Spanish Towers homes on 75th Street in 1927 and 1928, according to its landmark application.
But their arched entrances, gabled roof and similar style to other landmarked buildings in the neighborhood's historic district helped push them into consideration for landmark status, according to the application.
The "Queens group" of sites up for landmarking is scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. at the Oct. 8 hearing.
The six other locations in the borough includes the Old Calvary Cemetery Gatehouse, the Bowne Street Community Church and an extension to the historic district in Douglaston.
