39-20 44th Street

Sunnyside | built 1927

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

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1927
39-20 44th Street goes up in 1927 in a Madison North row that faces a garden instead of the street
Built in 1927, 39-20 belongs to a row of eight two-story houses with attics in the Madison North court, set at right angles to 44th Street. The fronts of the row look south over a grassy garden ringed with hedges, reached by a concrete walk running past small planted yards, while the backs open onto a service driveway. Brick chimneys rise at each end of the row and after every second house.
“Row of eight, two-story-plus-attic row houses situated perpendicular to the street grid facing a central court garden…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Designation report finds 39-20 44th Street repointed but keeping its old basement window and stoop railing
The 2007 historic district designation report listed 39-20 as a type B' house with aluminum one-over-one windows and a newer front door behind a metal-and-glass storm door. Its brick front had been repointed, yet a historic basement window survived, as did the old metal railing on the painted concrete stoop. In back, half of the yard was paved, and a raised yard held up by a concrete-block wall sat inside a chain-link fence.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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