21-16 45th Avenue

Long Island City | built 1872

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1968

    May 15

    Landmarks commission ranks this stone house and its twins among the city's finest Italianate town houses

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    This three-story house over a basement is one of five stone-faced dwellings, numbers 21-12 through 21-20, on the south side of the avenue, matching five houses across the street. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Hunters Point Historic District, it counted the ten together among the best groups of Italianate town houses in New York. It also called their Westchester stone facing virtually unique.

    “These five houses together with the five matching houses on the south side of the Avenue (Numbers 21-12 through 21-20) form one of the finest groups…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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