39-30 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
Madison Court North turns 39-30 44th Street and its row of eight away from the street
No. 39-30 44th Street was built in 1927 in a row of eight Madison Court North houses that stands at right angles to 44th Street. Its front faces north onto a shared lawn lined with hedges and edged by a scalloped cast concrete curb; a concrete path divides the garden from each house's small planted front yard. It is a type B plan under a slate side-gable roof; only the end house, 39-40, has an asphalt-shingled gable-front roof, set crosswise to the rest. Its back looks onto a service driveway running through the block.
“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
A flagpole on the stoop rail marks 39-30 44th Street in the 2007 landmark report
When the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated Sunnyside Gardens in 2007, its report noted that the front of 39-30 44th Street had been cleaned and its sills painted. The house kept its historic door surround, though the door itself was new, and a flagpole was fixed to the stoop railing. Out back, an opening had been enlarged for a door, and the paved yard, raised slightly on cast-stone blocks, held a wood deck behind a picket fence with a gate.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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