39-23 49th 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 flat-roofed row house is built mid-row on the east side of Harrison Place's 49th Street block
39-23 49th Street was built in 1927 in a row of thirteen Harrison Place houses facing west across 49th Street. It belongs to the row's central group, set back from the street line with flat roofs, while the houses at either end carry pitched slate roofs. Decorative brickwork tops the parapet: soldier courses, a checkerboard pattern, stepped corbelled piers and a toothed brick cornice. The commission classes the house as row house type B.
“The center buildings are recessed from the streetwall and have projecting and flat, decorative brickwork at the parapet…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
At landmarking, 39-23 49th Street keeps its old door hood on new brackets
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The commission's 2007 survey recorded a non-historic front door behind a grille at 39-23 49th Street, reached by a concrete and brick stoop with cast-stone treads and a metal railing. The historic door surround and hood remained, though now held on non-historic metal brackets. A flagpole was mounted at the first floor, vinyl one-over-one windows carried snap-in six-over-six muntins, and a loose brick curb edged the front yard.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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