37-20 79th 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's houses put their garages beneath them, reached by shared driveways
When Benjamin Dreisler, Jr. laid out twenty-three houses on each of the 78th and 79th Street blockfronts in 1926, he set them around an interior berm. Shared driveways lead to garages under the houses, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission describes the details as loosely Georgian, set off by Spanish-tiled mansard roofs. Dreisler was one of three architects behind the district's late-1920s house rows, with Pierce L. Kiesewetter and James D. Junge.
“The houses frame an interior berm, and common driveways lead to garages under the houses.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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