116-47 227th Street

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1931
August
Builders market this row with five rivals as the Parkway Homes of St. Albans
Late in August 1931 Wolosoff Brothers, builders of No. 116-47 and its row, agreed with five other developers working near Linden (then Foch) Boulevard to advertise jointly as the Parkway Homes of St. Albans. A shared crest marked each development's entrance to draw buyers driving to the Southern State Parkway and Jones Beach, and a Sunday ad in the New York Daily News pictured the 227th Street houses.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1931
No. 116-47 is a single Storybook house with a corner vestibule under a flat parapet
No. 116-47 is one of the single houses, eight per side of 227th Street, built with a flared-roof entrance vestibule at the corner and one single and one paired window upstairs below a flat parapet. It keeps its original wood front door, half-timbering, basketweave and herringbone brick, and slate roofs. Its leaded diamond-pane front window has been replaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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