82-01 Roosevelt Avenue

also 37-67 82nd Street, 37-65 82nd Street, 37-69 82nd Street | Jackson Heights | built 1922

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

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1922
Stores Construction Co. puts up a two-story store building beside the elevated tracks
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In 1922 the Stores Construction Co. built this two-story commercial building on the northeast corner of Roosevelt Avenue and 82nd Street, right next to the elevated train tracks, to designs by M.A. Cantor. The Landmarks Preservation Commission called it typical of the early commercial building in Jackson Heights, with shops on the ground floor of both its avenue and street sides.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1922
Tile-trimmed pediments crown the corner store building's two facades
M.A. Cantor gave the building decorative brickwork and large windows. Both the long 82nd Street front and the short Roosevelt Avenue front end in a triangular pediment at the parapet, trimmed with ceramic tiles and a central medallion. A brick and tile frieze with a geometric pattern runs along the fascia, easiest to see at No. 37-67, and a one-story store extension reaches north on 82nd Street. The original storefronts below the fascia have all been replaced.
“…each marked by a triangular pediment at the parapet, decorated with ceramic tiles and a centrally-placed medallion motif…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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