39-17 44th 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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1928
A 1928 survey of Sunnyside's buyers finds mechanics, chauffeurs and clerks in its new houses
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In 1928 the City Housing Corporation reviewed who was living at Sunnyside Gardens, where this Lincoln Court house had been finished two years before. It found mechanics, office workers, tradesmen, chauffeurs, salesmen and city employees, along with several writers, artists, teachers, doctors and other professionals; most first buyers earned between $1,200 and $3,500 a year. Half the first residents came from the Lower East Side, and although nothing in writing barred them, the landmark report says early residents appear not to have included African Americans.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
This Lincoln Court house is recorded with bluestone steps and a cobblestone yard curb
The 2007 landmark survey classes 39-17 as a Type B' house in its row of eleven. It had wood one-over-one windows with wood storms, set in pairs in the large window opening, and its stoop had bluestone treads with a metal railing. A cobblestone curb and bluestone pavers marked the front yard, while the porch had been sheathed in vertical wood siding with a side entrance.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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