Jahn's

81-04 37th Avenue | 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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1923
J. Lubrott designs a row of five brick apartment buildings with stores for Polk Construction
Polk Construction Co. built this three-story building in 1922-23 as one of five on the south side of 37th Avenue between 81st and 82nd Streets, all designed by J. Lubrott. Each has apartments upstairs and a store at street level, five shops in all along the avenue. No. 81-04 was filed with Nos. 81-06, 81-08 and 81-10 under one 1922 new-building filing.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
November
Jahn's in Jackson Heights becomes the last of a once-sprawling chain of ice cream parlors
John Jahn opened the first Jahn's in 1897 in the Bronx, and by the 1950s the ice cream parlors, known for the giant Kitchen Sink Sundae, stretched across Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, New Jersey and Florida. When the Richmond Hill branch closed in November 2007 (the Richmond Hill Historical Society dates it to 2008), the parlor at 81-04 37th Avenue was left as the only Jahn's still operating.
“In November 2007, one of the last two remaining Jahn's, in Richmond Hill, closed. ... The last Jahn's is at 81–04 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights…”
Source: Wikipedia

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