37-43 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
Queensboro sells the house as a garden home an owner can split into two flats
In 1924 the Queensboro Corporation put up a row of twenty single-family houses by the McAvoy firm along the east side of 87th Street, from Roosevelt Avenue to 37th Avenue; this is one of them. The company promoted them as "English Convertible Garden Homes": an owner was free to convert a house into a two-family residence. The Landmarks Preservation Commission later described the scheme as shaped by the Garden City Movement.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1924
C.F. McAvoy designs the house in a neo-Georgian cluster of five under permit NB 326-1924
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Filed under new-building permit NB 326-1924 for the Queensboro Corporation, this three-story house is part of a five-house cluster arranged in mirror image, part of a symmetrical row of four clusters. Its style draws on the neo-Georgian: red brick with white trim, wood shutters, and either prominent front gables or shed dormers. The row has terraced front yards and steps, and the commission called it the first of many such groups of attached and semi-detached houses in Jackson Heights in the late 1920s.
“Built in 1924 to designs by C.F. McAvoy, this group of twenty houses was the first of many similar groups of attached and semi-detached houses…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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