37-57 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 E. Currier builds one of the first speculative houses in what becomes the Jackson Heights district
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In 1911 Charles E. Currier, who headed the Jackson Heights Building Company, built rowhouses to Charles Peck's designs on 82nd and 83rd streets, a short way north of Roosevelt Avenue. The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls these the district's first speculative buildings, erected before the Queensboro Corporation shifted to apartment houses. The 82nd Street houses were later demolished or converted to commercial use, while the 83rd Street row survives.
“The first speculative buildings in the district were the rowhouses, designed by Charles Peck and built in 1911 on 82nd and 83rd streets…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1955
A 1955 alteration gives the old rowhouse a brick commercial front with a paneled parapet
An alteration permit of 1955 is recorded for No. 37-57, one of seven 1911 rowhouses on this block that were remade for business between the 1930s and the 1950s. Each was extended to the lot line and refaced; here the upper wall is brick, with large windows, stretcher-course brickwork and a paneled parapet, above a ground-floor storefront that has itself been altered since.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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