77-15 37th Avenue

also 35-57A 77th Street, 35-58 78th Street, 77-05A 37th Avenue | Jackson Heights | built 1937

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

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1937
Lenz & Berger design a block-long neo-Georgian row of stores for Apeco Realty
Apeco Realty Co. put up this one-story commercial building in 1937, filling the north side of 37th Avenue between 77th and 78th Streets, to plans by the architects Lenz & Berger. The Landmarks Preservation Commission cites it as an example of how shops on the avenue were meant to blend with the apartment blocks around them. Its paneled brick parapet carries four pediments with blind oculi, brick quoins, and cast-stone urns; all the original storefronts have since been replaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2018
Maria Piedad Cano, the Colombian judge turned street cook known as the Arepa Lady, reopens her restaurant
Maria Piedad Cano had been a lawyer and judge in Colombia before fleeing to the United States, where she sold arepas from a griddle on Roosevelt Avenue at night; the New York Press called her the Saintly Arepa Lady in 1993. Her 2014 Elmhurst shop was torn down for apartments, and she reopened in 2018 with her son Alejandro Osorio. Of the restaurant's three branches, Atlas Obscura calls this Jackson Heights one closest to her roots.
Source: atlasobscura.com

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