21-44 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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1889
Checkerboard brickwork decorates the 1889 apartment house at 21-44
Built in 1889, No. 21-44 is the middle one of three matching four-story brick apartment houses, Nos. 21-42 to 21-46. Their most eye-catching feature is the spandrel panels, where header bricks laid at an angle alternate with bricks set head-on in a checkerboard arrangement. The lintels rest on impost blocks over flush stone band courses, and vertical banding ties the three-sided bays together, stressing the buildings' height.
“The decoration is made up of two patterns of header bricks set obliquely and head on.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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