39-12 45th 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
A declaration of easements dated this day governs Block 155, the block of 39-12 45th Street
The declaration of easements for Block 155, where 39-12 45th Street stands, is dated December 31, 1925, according to the 2007 Landmarks report. Sunnyside Gardens buyers accepted these covenants when they bought their lots. Because the banks lending the mortgages insisted, most of the restrictions were written to run for forty years, generally until 1966, while a few, such as utility rights and the rule keeping light and air unblocked, were made permanent.
“…we have copies of the easements for Blocks 154 and 155 (dated December 31, 1925)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
39-12 45th Street is built in 1926 at the north end of a nine-house row in Lincoln Court
39-12 45th Street dates from 1926 and belongs to Lincoln Court, a Sunnyside Gardens court on Block 155, in a row on the west side of 45th Street. The row's nine two-story houses come in five types, some flat-roofed and some gabled with an attic story. At the north end of the row, it and its neighbor at 39-16 are the two houses whose slate-shingled gable roofs turn their eaves to the street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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