37-42 79th Street

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1926
Benjamin Dreisler, Jr. designs No. 37-42 among clustered houses with shared driveways
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In 1926 the architect Benjamin Dreisler, Jr. laid out twenty-three houses in clusters along each of the 78th and 79th Street blockfronts between 37th Avenue and Roosevelt Avenue; No. 37-42 79th Street is one of them. According to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the houses are arranged around an interior berm, and common driveways run back to garages tucked beneath the houses.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
No. 37-42 gets neo-Georgian brick, porches and a basement garage
No. 37-42 was filed under permit NB 11922-1926 with the five other houses of its cluster, Nos. 37-38 through 37-48. The design draws mostly on the neo-Georgian style: red brick in Flemish bond, front porches with pitched roofs or umbrella hoods, multi-pane double-hung windows, and pitched tile roofs with chimneys. Each house has a front garden.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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