116-49 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.
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- 1931
Garages go up behind No. 116-49 along a new shared rear driveway
After an easement created 10-foot-wide driveways behind the 227th Street houses, their garages were built starting by September 1931, and the row was largely complete by October. Sales started quickly, but the deepening Depression left several houses unsold for over a year. No. 116-49 shares its rear garage with No. 116-47.
“…create the district's 10-foot-wide rear driveways, its garages were built starting by September of 1931…”
- 1931
No. 116-49 ends the east row with a half-timbered oriel and a side driveway
No. 116-49 is one of only two houses per side of the street built with a projecting, peaked entrance vestibule and a half-timbered second-story oriel with three windows; it keeps the oriel's wood finial. As the row's southern end house it has a brick side facade with five windows and a paved side driveway. A tiled entrance ramp and a new front fence were added later.
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- 116-47 227th Street2 entries
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- 116-41 227th Street1 entry
- 116-39 227th Street1 entry
- 116-37 227th Street1 entry