The Creston Arms

87-15 37th Avenue | also 35-68 88th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1955

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

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1954
Barlut Building Corp. builds the Creston Arms on the north side of 37th Avenue after World War II
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The Creston Arms went up in 1954-55 under permit NB 965-1954 for the Barlut Building Corp., occupying the block end on the north side of 37th Avenue between 87th and 88th Streets. The landmarks report counts it among the apartment houses built in Jackson Heights in the years after World War II. The building rises six stories over a basement garage, entered through a vehicle door on 87th Street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1955
Seelig & Finkelstein give the Creston Arms a black granite entrance and continuous stone bands
Seelig & Finkelstein broke the building's avenue front into three sections with two deep lightcourts, the widest in the center. Each section has a shallow recess holding a fire escape, and the central one contains the main entrance, with secondary doors in each section. Continuous cast-stone lintel and sill courses give the brick facade a horizontal emphasis, and the main doorway has a polished black granite frame, plate-glass doors and a metal-trimmed marquee.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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