37-17 78th 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
Dreisler lays out 46 houses back to back on 78th and 79th streets with garages tucked beneath
In 1926 Benjamin Dreisler Jr. planned forty-six attached and semi-detached houses on 78th and 79th streets, from 37th Avenue to Roosevelt Avenue, twenty-three on each street. The houses are grouped in clusters that back onto each other across the block, facing out to the two streets. Driveways entered at each end of the row lead into the block's interior, and every house has a garage at the back of its basement.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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