39-33 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
39-33 45th Street closes Washington Court's row as a flat-roofed house facing the path
The last of the 13 houses Washington Court built on the east side of 45th Street in 1926, 39-33 is a flat-roofed type R' house on lot 34 of Block 154. Unlike the others, it is set well back and turned perpendicular to the row, with its front facing the path that runs through the block.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
39-33 45th Street is found to have lost its cast-iron porch and second-floor bays
By the 2007 designation survey, the cast-iron porch that once stood on the 45th Street side of 39-33 had been taken off, and the first floor there was filled in with brick holding a door and three casement windows. Both projecting bays on the second floor of the front facing the path had been removed and replaced with casements. The terra-cotta coping and cast-stone finials on the parapet remained.
“…cast-iron porch removed; non historic brick infill at 1st floor - door at south side, 3 casements at west…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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