39-25 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
39-25 45th Street completes a run of recessed flat-roofed houses in Washington Court in 1926
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Built in 1926, this house is the tenth in Washington Court's row of 13 on the east side of 45th Street in Sunnyside Gardens. It is the last of three set-back, flat-roofed houses before the row returns to gable-roofed houses at 39-27 and 39-29. The Commission assigns it the Type A plan.
“The flat roof third, four th, fifth, eighth, ninth and tenth buildings are recessed from the streetwall.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Repointed parapet and brick porch infill noted at 39-25 45th Street in 2007
In the 2007 designation report for the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District, this house had one-over-one vinyl windows and a porch enclosed with brick, one-over-one at the front and sliders on the side. The parapet had been repointed, and a light fixture and an address plaque hung near the door. Sliding windows had been fitted at the basement, and a raised brick planting bed fronted the house.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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