34-42 83rd Street

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1928
James D. Junge designs 34-42 83rd Street as part of a ten-house garden-home group
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34-42 83rd Street is one of ten three-story houses on the west side of 83rd Street between 34th and 35th avenues, designed by James D. Junge for the developers Carrizzo & Brunetti and built in 1928-29 under permit NB 6798-1928. The houses form two clusters of five in an a-b-c-b-a pattern, with mirror-image entrances so each cluster reads as one larger building. No. 34-42 begins the second cluster, which was filed under its own permit, separate from the first five houses.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1929
34-42 83rd Street belongs to the district's last group of houses for over twenty years
James D. Junge's two clusters of five houses on 83rd Street, which include 34-42 83rd Street, were the final group of attached houses raised in what became the Jackson Heights Historic District until 1951. That year T. Atcuri designed a row of five brick houses on 84th Street. As the Depression began, the Queensboro Corporation shifted from houses back to large six-story apartment buildings.
“These were the last such group erected within the district until 1951, when T. Atcuri designed a row of five attached houses on 84th Street…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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