39-23 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
39-23 44th Street is set back and turned sideways at the south end of its 1926 Lincoln Court row
At the southern end of an eleven-house Lincoln Court row from 1926, 39-23 is a flat-roofed house pulled back even farther than the recessed houses in the middle of the row. It is rotated to sit at right angles to its neighbors, so its front looks onto the path leading to the shared green rather than onto 44th Street.
“The flat roof, southernmost building is further recessed and set perpendicular to the row, facing the path to the common green.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
39-23 44th Street keeps its cast-iron porch, wood windows and enclosed entry in the 2007 designation report
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When the 2007 historic district designation report described 39-23, its street-facing side still had a historic two-story cast-iron porch with historic doors behind aluminum storms, and the house kept its six-over-six wood windows with storms, four-over-four sash at the porch, and its historic doors. The enclosed front porch, its wood and roof painted green, survived, along with a historic trellis by the yard.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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