37-54 83rd 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
No. 37-54 rises in 1911 as part of Charles Peck's row for the Charles E. Currier Co.
The Charles E. Currier Co. built No. 37-54 in 1911 as part of Charles Peck's row of ten brick houses, filed as NB 1017-1911, of which eight still stand. The commission calls the group the first development project inside the historic district. A twin row by Peck backed onto it from 82nd Street but was altered for business use over the following decades. Historic double-leaf wood-and-glass doors survive here.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
No. 37-54 is among the oldest buildings still standing in the Jackson Heights district
The Landmarks Preservation Commission names the 1911 Peck rowhouses on 83rd Street's west side, No. 37-54 among them, as the oldest buildings still standing in the district. Built before any of the Queensboro Corporation's planning innovations, the row is a plain pre-World War I type: attached houses with restrained neo-classical trim. The commission saw it as a picture of how the area might have developed if Queensboro had not turned to building apartments.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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