35-53 87th Street

Jackson Heights | built 1925

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About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 1925

    C.F. McAvoy designs this house in a row of eighteen garden homes for the Queensboro Corporation

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    Filed under permit NB 99-1925 with Nos. 35-51, 35-55 and 35-57-61, this house is part of an eighteen-house row along 87th Street's east side from 35th Avenue to 37th Avenue, designed by C.F. McAvoy for the Queensboro Corporation. The row repeats, almost exactly, the McAvoy firm's 1924 houses one block south. Its neo-Georgian houses have red brick with white trim, steep slate roofs with gables or shed dormers, and wood shutters.

    “Built in 1925 to designs by C.F. McAvoy, this group of eighteen houses is characteristic of many similar groups…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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