35-50 88th Street

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1925
Robert Tappan designs No. 35-50 as one of eight neo-Georgian row houses for developer V. Scuderi
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The eight houses at 35-42 through 35-56 88th Street were recorded together as new building NB 8871-1925, drawn by Robert Tappan and developed by V. Scuderi. They form one of two eight-house clusters flanking a central group of four in a twenty-house row along the west blockfront of 88th Street from 35th to 37th Avenue. No. 35-50 is one of the six middle houses of that cluster, with a pitched slate roof and an entrance porch paired with a neighbor's, set between two gabled end houses that project toward the street. The design mixes patterned brick, white trim, shed dormers and arched doorways with fanlights.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
No. 35-50 shares a planned block interior and garage driveway with McAvoy houses on 87th Street
Tappan's second row in Jackson Heights, which includes No. 35-50, went up in 1925-26, backing onto the second row the McAvoys built on 87th Street in 1925. Behind the houses, in the middle of the block, stand pairs of garages, one for each house, built in the same materials and style as the houses themselves. A single common driveway serves both the Tappan row on 88th Street and the McAvoy row on 87th Street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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