37-49 78th Street

Jackson Heights | built 1927

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1926

    37-49 78th Street is permitted with four neighbors as a five-house group

    New-building permit NB 11923-1926 covered 37-49 78th Street (Block 1289, Lot 53) together with Nos. 37-51, 37-53, 37-55 and 37-57, the only five-house cluster on this blockfront. The J.H. Kleinman Construction Corp. developed the group of forty-six attached and semi-detached houses in 1926-27, with Benjamin Dreisler, Jr. as architect. Each house stands two and a half stories.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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