21-32 45th Avenue

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

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1887
A brick row house closes the east end of an 1887 group of six
No. 21-32 is the easternmost of six brick houses, Nos. 21-22 to 21-32, built in 1887 on what was then Twelfth Street. Like the rest of the row it stands two stories over a basement, with plain lintels and a deep wood cornice on four Neo-Grec brackets.
“This fine group of six brick houses is two stories high with basement. It was built in 1887, and the stone stoops and the cornices are intact.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1968
The landmarks report finds the house has lost its original stoop and ironwork
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When the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Hunters Point Historic District in 1968, No. 21-32 was the only house in this 1887 row of six to have lost both its original stoop and its ironwork. The stoop had been replaced in concrete block and the railings with modern ironwork, though its wooden roof cornice survived.
“Number 21-32 has lost both its original ironwork and stoop, the ironwork being modern and the stoop of concrete block.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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