English Gables II and Colony Theater

37-27 82nd Street | also 37-15 82nd Street, 37-35 82nd Street, 37-31 82nd Street | Jackson Heights | built 1935

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1935
Sanline Realty files plans for English Gables II, a row of stores with a movie theater
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In 1935 the Sanline Realty Corp. filed plans (NB 167-1935) for a 193-foot building to hold stores and a movie theater, designed by Simon B. Zelnik; a 1935 rendering labels the project English Gables II. At No. 37-29, the Colony Theater is set off by a raised, battlemented parapet and still keeps a projecting metal-trimmed marquee. The neo-Tudor row has peaked stone-faced gables, an oriel window and a continuous slate roof.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1938
A second 100-foot section of stores extends English Gables II down 82nd Street
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Queens building records suggest the row went up in two phases. After the 1935 theater-and-stores section, a second application (NB 1014-1938) called for another 100 feet of frontage for stores only, built in 1938-39. The landmarks report notes that a fourth gable once showed and may survive behind the double-height storefront at No. 37-19, and that a one-story store at Nos. 37-11 to 37-13 on the same lot looks like a later addition.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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