35-44 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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1926
No. 35-44 is built in 1926 as half of a McAvoy double house with No. 35-40
No. 35-44 shares permit NB 445-1926 with No. 35-40, the two halves of one of the seven double houses that C.F. and D.E. McAvoy designed for the block. Behind the pair stand garages, one for each house, faced in brick and roofed in slate to match, reached by a narrow shared driveway off 87th Street. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the district in 1993, it found nearly all the original six-over-six wood windows surviving behind storm sash.
“Behind the houses, visible from the street, are paired garages, one per house, which are designed with brick siding and slate roofs…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
Brothers Charles F. and Daniel E. McAvoy, housing innovators, design No. 35-44
No. 35-44 is the work of the brothers Charles F. and Daniel E. McAvoy, who specialized in building homes, above all in Queens, from early in the century until the Depression, with work in Forest Hills and Jackson Heights. Daniel McAvoy had been developing prefabricated building units since 1917, and his so-called McAvoy plan was taken up in Miami in 1926 to ease a housing shortage. In the 1920s he also led the Queensboro Plaza Association, pushing for Queensboro Plaza to become the city's main transit hub.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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