35-39 87th 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
C.F. McAvoy designs 35-39 87th Street for the Queensboro Corporation
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The house was filed under new-building permit NB 98-1925 along with Nos. 35-41, 35-43, 35-45 and 35-47, one cluster in a row of eighteen houses that architect C.F. McAvoy drew for the Queensboro Corporation on the east side of 87th Street. The landmarks report traces the design mostly to the neo-Georgian style: red brick trimmed in white, steep slate roofs with gables and shed dormers, and wooden shutters. Each house has a small front yard, a stoop and a garage of its own at the back.
“Built in 1925 to designs by C.F. McAvoy, this group of eighteen houses…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
Brothers Charles F. and Daniel E. McAvoy follow their first 87th Street row with the group holding 35-39
The McAvoy brothers specialized in building homes, with a particular focus on Queens, from early in the century until the Depression. Their first Jackson Heights row, twenty houses of 1924, stands on 87th Street between Roosevelt and 37th avenues; in 1925 they designed a similar group of eighteen farther north that includes this house. Daniel McAvoy had already been working on prefabricated housing units since 1917.
“In the following year, the McAvoys designed a similar group of eighteen houses further north on 87th Street…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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