39-13 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 154, the block of 39-13 45th Street
The declaration of easements for Block 154, where 39-13 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
39-13 45th Street rises in 1926 as the fourth house in a 13-house row of Washington Court
39-13 45th Street was built in 1926 on Block 154 as part of Washington Court, one of the garden courts of Sunnyside Gardens. It is the fourth house in a row of 13 two-story houses that mixes flat roofs with gables over an attic floor. The Landmarks report notes that it is one of three flat-roofed houses, 39-11 through 39-15, that sit back from the line of the gabled houses on either side.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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