39-12 44th Street

Sunnyside | built 1927

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

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1927
The City Housing Corporation builds this house in Madison Court North, a mews turned away from the street
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This house belongs to Madison Court North, built in 1927 on the westernmost block of Sunnyside Gardens. Unlike most of the development, its houses stand at right angles to 44th Street in six paired rows of eight facing shared center gardens. The planners wanted as few houses as possible to face the plain rows that outside builders were putting up nearby, and to give residents a feeling of enclosure.
“Built at the edge of the property in 1927, with the “purpose to front as few houses as possible toward the outside builders’ monotonous rows”…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Landmark surveyors find this mews house still has its historic stoop railing and scalloped garden curb
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The 2007 landmark survey lists 39-12 as a Type B' house, the mirror-image form with its entrance on the right. Its windows had been replaced with one-over-one vinyl sash and its door with a non-historic wood one, but the brick stoop kept its historic metal railing. A scalloped cast-stone curb edged its front yard, and the surveyors noted ice guards on the roof and an antenna fixed to the chimney.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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