34-38 88th Street

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

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1925
34-38 88th Street is filed with five neighbors under permit NB 19442
This house heads one of the two six-house clusters in a seventeen-house row that C.L. Varrone designed for the developers Burnetti & Corrizzi, completed in 1925-26. Its cluster, from 34-38 to 34-50, was filed together in 1925 as NB 19442. The row stands back to back with Robert Tappan's 1925 group on 87th Street, and the two groups were laid out together as one block plan around a landscaped open space at its center.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
34-38 88th Street is the hipped-roof "a" house at the head of a six-house cluster
The two six-house clusters in Varrone's row follow a mirrored a-b-c-c-b-a pattern, and this house is the "a" at the 34-38 end of its cluster. The "a" houses have hipped roofs that give each cluster the look of one larger pavilion. The landmarks report notes that most original windows survive along the row, though some entry and garage doors have been replaced and some front gardens fenced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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