Lincoln Court

39-37 44th Street | Sunnyside | built 1926

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1926
No. 39-37 goes up as a flat-roofed house at the center of Lincoln Court's 44th Street row
No. 39-37 is one of 14 row houses of Lincoln Court lining the east side of 44th Street, a row that mixes two-story flat-roofed houses with gabled ones of two stories plus an attic. Its center houses, flat-roofed and set back from the street wall, are of two plan types, A and A'; No. 39-37 is an A. Projecting bay windows, brick soldier courses and geometric brickwork, some of it projecting trim the fronts, and every house has a grassy front yard and a basement door under its porch or stoop.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
Lincoln Court rings its block with 78 row houses around three shared gardens
This house belongs to Lincoln Court, whose 78 row houses take up the entire block framed by 39th Avenue, 45th Street, Skillman Avenue and 44th Street. As at the Hamilton, Roosevelt and Washington Courts, the houses line the edges of the block, but the rows differ in length, setback, roof and height, and paths cross the block after every eight to 14 houses. Three paired rows enclose three interior gardens that the court shares, while each house keeps a private yard in front and in back.
“The 78 row houses of Lincoln Court cover the block bounded by 39th Avenue (north), 45th Street (east), Skillman Avenue (south), and 44th Street (west).”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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