39-05 44th Street

Sunnyside | built 1926

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1925
December 31
Lincoln Court's block is placed under shared covenants on the last day of 1925
The declaration of easements for Blocks 154 and 155 of Sunnyside Gardens is dated December 31, 1925; Block 155 holds the Lincoln Court row that includes 39-05. Each court's rules were enforced by a five-member board of trustees: two named by the City Housing Corporation, two who lived in the court, and one person tied to neither. The board looked after the common areas and collected dues from residents to pay for their upkeep.
“…we have copies of the easements for Blocks 154 and 155 (dated December 31, 1925)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
39-05 44th Street is built as one of Lincoln Court's gabled row houses
Built in 1926 for Lincoln Court, 39-05 is the second house in a row of eleven two-story row houses of five different types on the east side of 44th Street. Its slate-shingled gable roof has its eaves to the street, and it is one of three houses in the row, with 39-01 and 39-19, that have no basement entrance. At the back, a two-story porch has a door onto a second-floor terrace.
“There are basement entrances at the center buildings, not at 39-01, 39-05, or 39-19 44th Street.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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