81-02 37th Avenue

also 37-03 81st Street, 37-09 81st Street, 37-05 81st Street | Jackson Heights | built 1923

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

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1922
Polk Construction Co. files plans for a corner building with apartments over stores
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No. 81-02 is the corner member of a row of five three-story brick buildings that J. Lubrott designed for the Polk Construction Co. in 1922-23. It was filed under its own new-building permit, separate from the four neighbors to the east. Its corner shop turns one bay onto 81st Street, where the side elevation holds the building entrance and four more shops, three of them in an adjoining one-story brick building south of the door.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1993
Landmarks report finds the corner office windows and stone doorway still in place
When Jackson Heights became a historic district on October 19, 1993, the commission noted that many of the row's original multi-paned windows remained, among them a tripartite pair lighting the second-floor corner office of No. 81-02. The stone doorway on 81st Street, numbered 37-03, still framed a wood door with colonnettes, sidelights and a broad transom, though every original storefront had been replaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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