39-26 44th 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
39-26 44th Street opens a 1927 row that looks north across a hedged garden court
In 1927 a row of eight houses, 39-26 through 39-40 44th Street, went up in the Madison North court, turned away from the street to face north over a shared central garden. Grass and hedges fill the court, a concrete path separates it from the small planted front yards, and a scalloped cast-concrete curb rims it, with a metal railing on a low brick curb along the 44th Street edge. 39-26 is among the seven houses here roofed with slate side gables.
“Row of eight, two-story-plus-attic row houses situated perpendicular to the street grid, facing a central garden court…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Designation report finds sliding doors cut into the back of 39-26 44th Street and a dish on its side wall
By the 2007 historic district designation report, 39-26 had a picture window between single-pane aluminum casements in its front bay and a non-historic door behind an aluminum storm. Its side wall over the 43rd Street garages carried a through-wall air conditioner, a light and a satellite dish. In back, one opening had been widened for paired sliding doors and the other filled with brick, and the slightly raised concrete yard had a wood deck and picket fence.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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