37-53 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
McAvoy row breaks the street wall into four freestanding groups with a shared rear driveway
Rather than a continuous wall of rowhouses, the McAvoys divided this 1924 blockfront into four freestanding groups of five attached houses, letting light and fresh air reach the inside of the block. Each house has a basement garage at the rear, reached by a common driveway that enters and leaves at the ends of the blockfront beside a landscaped berm. The Landmarks Preservation Commission traced the layout to Thomas's block plan for the Linden Court garden apartments.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1924
C.F. McAvoy designs the house in a neo-Georgian cluster of five under permit NB 329-1924
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Filed under new-building permit NB 329-1924 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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