La Casina
- Year
- 1934
- Style
- Streamline Moderne
- City
- Queens, NY
La Casina at 90-33 160th Street in Jamaica, Queens was originally built around 1907 and completely redesigned around 1936 in the Streamline Moderne style as a one-story nightclub.
the building
Ziggurat facade. The streamlined facade takes the form of a stepped pyramid, or ziggurat, and still carries its original vertical neon sign.
the style
The 1936 Streamline Moderne redesign gave the former building its stepped, aerodynamic facade, a style meant to evoke speed and modernity for a nightclub audience.
More on Streamline Modernesignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 and designated a New York City Landmark in 1996. From the 1940s through 1987, the building housed a clothing factory.
nearby
- Jamaica Savings Bank
- J. Kurtz & Sons Store
- Grace Episcopal Church Complex
- First Reformed Church
- King Manor
- Church of the Resurrection