21-35 45th Avenue

Long Island City | built 1875

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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

    Commission notes No. 21-35's original iron railings and door woodwork

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    No. 21-35 is one of five brick Italianate houses, three stories over a stuccoed basement, that Root & Rust put up on old Twelfth Street in the early 1870s. The 1968 designation report found its cast-iron areaway railings still in place, along with the original newel posts and handrails on its stoop. Its front door kept its original woodwork, with glass added to the middle panels.

    “The original cast iron railings at the areaways of Numbers 21-31 and 21-35 are in place…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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