Former Queensboro Corporation Headquarters

37-08 82nd Street | also 37-06 82nd Street, 37-12 82nd Street, 37-02 82nd Street | Jackson Heights | built 1929

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

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1928
Morrell Smith designs Queensboro's neo-Tudor headquarters on the corner of 82nd Street and 37th Avenue
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In 1928 the Queensboro Corporation began a three-story headquarters on the southwest corner of 82nd Street and 37th Avenue, designed by Morrell Smith. The landmarks report singles out its picturesque massing: jutting gable ends, half-timbering, slate roofs, brick chimneys and stone rams' heads. With the English Gables stores built the same year just to the south, it set the Tudor look of this commercial block.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1929
The Queensboro Corporation moves its staff from Manhattan into its first Jackson Heights headquarters
After more than a decade of building Jackson Heights, the Queensboro Corporation shifted the bulk of its work out of its Manhattan offices at 14 East 41st Street and into this building at 37th Avenue and 82nd Street, its first headquarters in the neighborhood. When it opened, 250 employees filled all three floors. In 1947 the company added a second office building, by Andrew J. Thomas, on the corner of 37th Avenue and 79th Street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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