39-34 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
39-34 45th Street anchors the north end of Lincoln Court's 14-house row
39-34 45th Street begins a row of 14 Lincoln Court houses on the west side of 45th Street, dated 1926, that runs south to 39-64. Like 39-64 at the other end, it is a flat-roofed house set farther back than the rest and turned at a right angle to the row, so it faces the path to the shared garden. The row combines three house types, and every house in it has a basement entry.
“The flat roof, northernmost and southernmost buildings are further recessed and set perpendicular to the row, facing the path to the comm on green.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Designation survey records changes and surviving windows at 39-34 45th Street
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The 2007 survey of Sunnyside Gardens describes 39-34 45th Street as a type R' house whose projecting bays had been covered in aluminum, with an antenna and satellite dish on the roof and a wood trellis and pavers in the front yard. The center bay of its side facing 45th Street is covered by a historic cast-iron porch two stories high, entered by a door at each level, and the side facing the interior garden court kept its historic six-over-six wood windows on both floors.
“…bays are clad with aluminum; wires at façade; antenna & satellite at roof; wood trellis and pavers in areaway…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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