37-21 87th Street

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

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1924
37-21 87th Street is part of Queensboro's turn from garden apartments to houses
From 1924 to 1929 the Queensboro Corporation switched from building garden apartments in Jackson Heights to attached and semi-detached houses. The first of these rows came from the McAvoy brothers, whose 1924 group on 87th Street includes 37-21 87th Street. The landmarks report says these Garden City-inspired blocks, with garages tucked under or behind the houses, made Jackson Heights one of the first communities in the city laid out with the automobile in mind.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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