39-12 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
The deed restrictions for 39-12 46th Street's block are set out in a declaration dated December 31, 1925
Sunnyside's Declaration of Easements and Restrictions for tax blocks 154 and 155 is dated December 31, 1925; 39-12 46th Street, in Washington Court, is on block 154. Owners could put up no garages, fences, hedges, outbuildings or awnings, and needed the trustees' written approval to alter a porch or repaint in another color. Resale for speculation was barred for the first three years, and most easements were to run 40 years.
“…we have copies of the easements for Blocks 154 and 155 (dated December 31, 1925)…”
- 1926
39-12 46th Street is built in 1926 as one of 13 houses in a Washington Court row
The row on the west side of 46th Street between 39th Avenue and Skillman Avenue, part of Washington Court, is dated 1926 in the landmarks report. Its 13 row houses, 39-08 through 39-34, include flat-roofed houses and gable-roofed ones with attics, in three different types. 39-12, lot 63 of tax block 154, is a type A house.
- 2007
The landmarks survey finds historic porch infill and a bluestone basement path at 39-12 46th Street
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In the 2007 survey 39-12 was a type A row house with one-over-one aluminum windows fitted with six-over-six snap-ins, a non-historic door and a brick stoop. Its historic porch infill survived with small alterations, painted brown, and a historic bluestone path led to the basement, where a railing and storm door had been added. The survey also noted a painted foundation and some added paving in the front yard.
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