34-44 83rd Street
Jackson Heights | built 1929
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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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- 1928
James D. Junge designs 34-44 83rd Street in a neo-Georgian group of five houses
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The house at 34-44 83rd Street (block 1443, lot 28) belongs to a five-house cluster running from 34-42 to 34-50, designed by James D. Junge for the developers Carrizzo & Brunetti and built in 1928-29. Each cluster follows a symmetrical a-b-c-b-a pattern of mirrored entrances and alternating rooflines. The fronts are red brick in Flemish bond, with Spanish tiles on the roofs and door hoods, wooden shutters and iron balconettes.
“Built in 1928-29 to designs by James D. Junge, this group often houses is characteristic of many similar groups…”
- 1928
Carrizzo & Brunetti build 34-44 with its own brick garage on a shared rear driveway
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Permit NB 6798-1928 covered the five houses at 34-42 through 34-50 83rd Street, including 34-44. Behind them, a common driveway entered from the ends of the blockfront serves ten brick garages arranged in two groups of five, one for each house, given pedimented tile roofs and dormers in a design like that of the houses.
- 1929
Junge's 83rd Street houses, 34-44 among them, become the district's last new row until 1951
The Jackson Heights designation report dates James D. Junge's two five-house clusters on 83rd Street, which include 34-44, to 1929. It calls them the last such group of houses erected in the historic district for more than two decades. The next came in 1951: five attached houses that T. Atcuri designed for 84th Street, faced in red brick with slate roofs.
“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…”
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- 34-50 83rd Street3 entries
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