116-04 227th Street

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1931
Summer
The Brooklyn Eagle praises houses like No. 116-04 as affordable on $50 a week
As construction of 227th Street's row houses, including No. 116-04, continued through the summer of 1931, the Brooklyn Eagle published a long profile of the finished homes. It admired the 'studio living room' lit by a tall bank of casement windows with tiny leaded panes, some lightly tinted, and told readers that a family earning $50 a week could afford to buy one.
“Yet they are homes that can be bought on an income of $50 weekly.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1931
No. 116-04 keeps its diamond-pane door and leaded front window from 1931
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No. 116-04, designed by Andrew Marjey and built in 1931, is one of only four houses in the 50-house row with a projecting peaked vestibule and a half-timbered upper oriel with a three-part window. Its curved brick front step, wood door with a colored diamond-pane sash, eight-sash leaded first-floor window, oriel finial and slate roofing all survive, while its rear garage, shared with No. 116-06, is rated non-contributing.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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