39-08 46th Street
Sunnyside | built 1926
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1925
Easements dated December 31, 1925 bind the Washington Court block that includes 39-08 46th Street
The declaration of easements for tax blocks 154 and 155 is dated December 31, 1925; 39-08 46th Street stands on block 154, in Washington Court. Sunnyside's declaration forbade garages, fences, hedges, clothes lines and radio poles, and barred changes to porches or repainting in a new color without the trustees' written consent. The deeds also banned speculative resale for three years, and most easements were set to last 40 years, generally until 1966.
“…we have copies of the easements for Blocks 154 and 155 (dated December 31, 1925)…”
- 1926
39-08 46th Street is built in Washington Court's 13-house row on the west side of 46th Street
The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates the Washington Court row on the west side of 46th Street, between 39th Avenue and Skillman Avenue, to 1926. It holds 13 row houses, numbered 39-08 to 39-34, some two stories with flat roofs and others two stories plus an attic under slate-shingled gables. The row combines three house types; 39-08, on lot 60 of block 154, is a type G house.
- 2007
39-08 46th Street keeps its historic windows and door surround, the landmarks survey records
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The 2007 survey found the historic windows and door surrounds intact at 39-08 and its neighbor 39-10, which also lacked the basement entries found elsewhere in the row. The side of 39-08 faces the through-block path, with smaller four-over-four wood windows in its center bays flanked by six-over-six sash, a brick chimney, and a one-over-one window where the gable vent had been. At the rear, a non-historic enclosed porch had been added at the first floor.
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