34-16 88th Street
Jackson Heights | built 1926
Open on the map1 entry
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.
- 1926
Varrone's 88th Street houses complete a planned block with Tappan's row behind them
Read more
Robert Tappan's sixteen-house row facing 87th Street went up in 1925; the following year C.L. Varrone's row facing 88th Street, including No. 34-16, filled the other side of the block. The Landmarks Preservation Commission says Varrone copied the earlier Tappan design but added Spanish-tile roofs. Together the two rows formed a complete block with automobile mews in the middle and symmetrically placed garages, which the report counts among Queensboro's best efforts.
“This group mimics the slightly earlier Tappan design, but with the addition of Spanish-tile roofs to otherwise English-inspired ornament.”
Nearby
- 34-18 88th Street1 entry
- 34-14 88th Street1 entry
- 34-20 88th Street2 entries
- 34-22 88th Street1 entry
- 34-24 88th Street1 entry
- 34-28 88th Street2 entries