39-35 49th 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
39-35 49th Street ends a row of thirteen Harrison Place row houses
Built in 1927 as part of Sunnyside Gardens, this house is the last of a thirteen-house row on 49th Street in the Harrison Place court. The row mixes three house types; No. 39-35, a type K house, is one of the end buildings with a slate-shingled pitched roof, while the recessed center houses have flat roofs and patterned brick parapets.
“The first two and last three buildings, 39-09, 39-11, 39-31, 39-33 and 39-35 49th Street, have slate shingled, eaves front, pitched roofs.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1927
Harrison Place sets its Sunnyside houses facing the street around one shared garden
Harrison Place, the court this house belongs to, has 83 row houses in nine rows spread over parts of five tax blocks around 39th Avenue. Unlike other Sunnyside Gardens courts, every one of its main façades faces the street, and it has only one central garden court. Much of that garden has since been taken into private yards and fenced.
“…this court is unique in that all primary facades face the street…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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