116-02 227th Street
Cambria Heights | built 1930
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1931
116-02 227th Street keeps its strap-hinged batten door and slate-roofed garage
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One of the two most elaborate houses in Andrew A. Marjey's 1931 row, it faces 116th Avenue with a half-timbered frame of interlocking gables over brick and stucco, the lowest gable serving as the entrance hood. The Landmarks Preservation Commission singled it out as especially intact: it keeps its wood batten door with iron strap hinges and stained glass, diamond-pane casements and six-over-six wood windows. Its rear garage on 116th Avenue retains a pent roof of rough-edged slate.
“No. 116-02 is especially intact, retaining its historic wood batten door with elaborate iron strap hinges and stained-glass panes…”
- 1933
116-02 227th Street finally finds a buyer in June 1933
The 227th Street houses were largely finished by October 1931, and early sales went well, but the Depression left several on the market for over a year. The two corner houses, this one and 116-01, did not find buyers until June 1933. Wolosoff Brothers built no more of their planned 600-home St. Albans Lawns and that November sold most of the remaining land to Kiesel Estates.
“…the corner houses at 116-01 and 116-02 227th Street were unsold until June of 1933.”
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