37-45 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
Gaps between the McAvoy clusters open the block to light, air and a shared driveway
The 1924 row that includes this house is split into four separate groups of five, a break with the unbroken street wall of nineteenth-century rowhouse blocks. The open gaps give views from 87th Street into the middle of the block and let in light and ventilation. Garages tucked below the back of each house open onto one shared driveway, a plan the Landmarks Preservation Commission said was based on Thomas's design for the garden apartments at Linden Court.
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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