34-42 87th Street
Jackson Heights | built 1926
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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
34-42 mirrors its neighbor in one of Tappan's neo-Georgian double houses
No. 34-42 was built in 1926 for the Queensboro Corporation as the mirror image of No. 34-38, the pair filed together under permit NB 1046-1926 to Robert Tappan's design. The red-brick houses carry white trim, slate roofs with dormers, wooden shutters and leaded transoms over the front doors. Replacement doors have been fitted over time, but the landmarks report found every leaded transom on the row still in place.
“…most of me original windows and all of the leaded transoms, remain intact…”
- 1926
Each Tappan double house on 87th Street is planned to look like one large home
Robert Tappan's 1926-27 complex on 86th and 87th Streets turned away from long rows, setting out ten houses on each street as five semi-detached pairs. In size and massing each pair suggests a single freestanding family house, yet each holds two entrances and two garages, one at either side. By shifting the chimneys and porches from pair to pair, Tappan gave the group variety.
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- 34-38 87th Street2 entries
- 34-46 87th Street2 entries
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- 34-50 87th Street2 entries
- 34-26 87th Street2 entries
- 34-43 86th Street3 entries