39-01 44th Street

Sunnyside | built 1926

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

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1925
December 31
The Lincoln Court block that holds 39-01 44th Street receives its deed covenants
The City Housing Corporation's easements for tax blocks 154 and 155 are dated December 31, 1925; block 155 is Lincoln Court, where 39-01 44th Street stands. Sunnyside's covenants, which varied little from block to block, kept the center of each block open as a shared garden even though owners held title to the block's center line. They also barred garages, fences and hedges, and changes to porches or paint colors without the court trustees' consent.
“…we have copies of the easements for Blocks 154 and 155 (dated December 31, 1925)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
39-01 44th Street heads a Lincoln Court row of eleven houses of five plans
No. 39-01 44th Street, built in 1926, heads a row of eleven Lincoln Court houses of five different plans. It is one of four in the row with a slate gable roof turned eaves-front to the street, and the row's houses have projecting bay windows and patterned brickwork. Unlike the center houses, it has no basement entrance; at the back it has a three-bay facade with a two-story porch, and doors open onto a terrace on the porch's upper level.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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