39-28 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
Lincoln Court's 45th Street row of nine is built, with 39-28 showing its gable to the street
Lincoln Court's row of nine houses on the west side of 45th Street, from 39-12 to 39-30, dates from 1926. The two-story houses, some flat-roofed and some with gabled attics, come in five types. 39-28, a type L house on lot 73 of Block 155, is the second building from the row's south end, the one whose projecting gable faces the street; the two houses at the north end instead have slate roofs with eaves toward the street.
“The slate shingled, gable roofs of the eighth and ninth buildings are eaves front, while the projecting gable of the second building…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Survey notes 39-28 45th Street has no basement entry and an altered side facing the path
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When Sunnyside Gardens was designated in 2007, the commission's description of this Lincoln Court row noted that 39-28 45th Street was one of only three houses in it, with 39-12 and 39-16, that had no basement entrance. Its three-bay south side looks onto the path that cuts through the block, where awning windows had taken the place of the four-over-four sash in the first opening and one-over-one windows had replaced the six-over-six sash in the other two bays on both floors.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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