37-49 82nd Street

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

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1911
Charles Peck designs No. 37-49 as one of ten two-story houses
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Architect Charles Peck designed this building in 1911 for the Charles E. Currier Co. as one of a row of ten two-story houses on the east side of 82nd Street. Its back faces a row of houses Peck designed at the same time on 83rd Street, which the 1993 historic district report found still unaltered.
“These seven buildings were originally built in 1911 as part of a row of ten two-story houses and rebuilt for commercial use…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1937
No. 37-49 is rebuilt as a store with a cast-stone front in 1937
Alteration permit Alt 9704-1937 converted this rowhouse to commercial use, bringing it forward to the lot line with a new facade. By 1993 only remnants of its cast-stone upper front survived, along with fluted piers at each end framing the large second-story windows; the shopfront below had been redone.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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