39-23 45th 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 45th Street is built in 1926 as a mirror-plan house in Washington Court
This two-story, flat-roofed house was finished in 1926 as part of Washington Court in Sunnyside Gardens. It is ninth in a row of 13 houses on the east side of 45th Street and one of the six flat-roofed houses in that row set back from the street line. Its Type A-prime plan reverses the layout of the houses on either side, 39-21 and 39-25.
“The flat roof third, four th, fifth, eighth, ninth and tenth buildings are recessed from the streetwall.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
2007 designation report notes a cleaned facade and brick-enclosed porch at 39-23 45th Street
The Commission's 2007 designation report for Sunnyside Gardens noted that this house's facade had been cleaned and its porch closed in with brick, with sliding windows at front and side. The windows elsewhere were one-over-one aluminum, a metal railing guarded the basement, and a raised brick planting bed stood in front. On the roof were an antenna and metal coping.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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