39-19 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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1926
This house is built under a slate gable in Lincoln Court's mixed row of eleven on 44th Street
Built in 1926, this house is the ninth in a row of eleven on the east side of 44th Street between Barnett and Skillman Avenues, which mixes five house types under flat roofs and two-story-plus-attic gables. It and the eighth house have slate-shingled gable roofs with the eaves toward the street. Unlike the center houses of the row, it has no basement entrance.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
By 2007 every window opening on this house has been altered, though a slate rear dormer survives
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The 2007 landmark survey found that all of the window openings at 39-19 had been altered and fitted with single-pane aluminum sliders or casements. The entry porch had vertical wood siding, casements and a side door, and an air-conditioner opening on the second floor was covered with plexiglass. At the back the house still had its historic dormer covered in slate shingles.
“…all window openings have been altered; vertical wood siding, casement windows & side entry at porch ... REAR – historic slate-shingled dormer at roof…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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