35-45 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
No. 35-45 goes up in 1925 as one of eighteen Queensboro Corporation garden homes
No. 35-45 is one of eighteen three-story houses C.F. McAvoy designed for the Queensboro Corporation on the east side of 87th Street, filed with its four cluster neighbors under permit NB 98-1925. The houses have small front yards with stoops, and the clusters are arranged A-B-B-A along the block so the row reads as a few larger buildings. Most of the original six-over-six wood windows and paneled doors with glazed upper sections were still in place when the district was designated in 1993.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
Brothers Charles F. and Daniel E. McAvoy, housing innovators, design No. 35-45
No. 35-45 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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