Madison Court North garages

39-21 43rd 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
A row of fourteen one-story brick garages goes up on 43rd Street for the Madison North court
This garage heads a row of 14 one-story brick garages, numbered 39-21 to 39-43 43rd Street, put up in 1927 for the Madison North court of Sunnyside Gardens. Each has a flat roof behind a plain parapet capped in cast stone and a lintel of soldier-laid brick over the door, and the row's back wall is set into a slope. The parapets step up after every second garage.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1927
Stein and Wright set Sunnyside's cars apart from its homes, lining garages along 43rd Street
Architects Clarence Stein and Henry Wright chose to keep automobiles and their garages away from the living areas of Sunnyside Gardens, placing them a short walk from the houses, usually on less desirable ground. The designation report lists the row of individual garages facing 43rd Street, then called Laurel Hill Avenue, among these arrangements, and notes that some critics saw the separation as rooted in nineteenth-century ideas of a sheltered suburban home.
“These include a row of individual garages facing 43rd Street (Laurel Hill Ave.)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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