37-21 78th Street

Jackson Heights | built 1927

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
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. 1926

    J.H. Kleinman Construction Corp. files to build this house with five neighbors

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    This house was filed in 1926 under new-building permit NB 10916, which covered a cluster of six houses at Nos. 37-13 through 37-23 78th Street. The developer was the J.H. Kleinman Construction Corp. and the architect Benjamin Dreisler, Jr. The cluster belongs to a 46-house group finished in 1926-27 on the block between 37th Avenue and Roosevelt Avenue, which the Landmarks Preservation Commission included in the Jackson Heights Historic District.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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