39-15 44th Street

Sunnyside | built 1926

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1925
Lincoln Court's deed covenants are dated December 31, 1925, before this house is built
Sunnyside's shared courts were created through easements written into each deed, which owners signed when they bought their lots. The 2007 landmark report found copies for Blocks 154 and 155, the second being Lincoln Court's block where this house stands, dated December 31, 1925. The covenants were meant to protect the character and appearance of the neighborhood as its architects and planners had designed it, and their wording changed only slightly over the years.
“…we have copies of the easements for Blocks 154 and 155 (dated December 31, 1925)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Landmark survey notes this house's cleaned brick, glass-block basement and sided-over porch
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The 2007 survey lists 39-15 as Type A', the mirror-image plan with its door on the right. Its brick front had been cleaned, glass block filled the basement window, and the entry porch had been covered in aluminum or vinyl siding with paired one-over-one windows. Surveyors also noted a flagpole holder and mail slot by the door, a through-wall air conditioner on the first floor, and lattice-trimmed wood railings at the basement stairs.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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