37-24 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
The house completes the first of four clusters on the 79th Street blockfront
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Twenty-three houses line this side of 79th Street between 37th and Roosevelt Avenues, grouped into three clusters of six and one of five; 37-24 is the last of the first six, filed in 1926 under permit NB 9211-1926. The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls the whole group of forty-six houses on 78th and 79th Streets characteristic of the many attached and semi-detached house groups put up in Jackson Heights in the late 1920s.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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