82-06 37th Avenue

also 82-08 37th Avenue, 82-10 37th Avenue, 82-02 37th Avenue | 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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1921
Seelig & Finkelstein give a one-story stone store block a square corner tower
Developer M. Beinstock had this one-story commercial building put up in 1921-22 to designs by Seelig & Finkelstein, a firm that also drew several apartment houses in Jackson Heights. Faced in multicolored random ashlar stone, it has shops on both 82nd Street and 37th Avenue that meet at a cut corner with a square tower, decorated with an open scroll carrying a fleur-de-lis.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1928
Queensboro's headquarters ends this store block's run as the corner's lone Tudor building
This building, at the southeast corner of 82nd Street and 37th Avenue, was the first of the neo-Tudor commercial buildings erected at the intersection. For several years it was the only Tudor-style structure there, until the Queensboro Corporation built its gabled three-story headquarters on the southwest corner in 1928, along with the English Gables row on 82nd Street, fixing the character of the block.
“…it stood as the sole Tudor structure at the intersection until a building campaign by the Queensboro Corporation on the west side of 82nd Street…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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