39-40 46th 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
No. 39-40 turns a chimneyed side wall toward a Washington Court through-block path
No. 39-40 stands in a 12-house Washington Court row on 46th Street, whose center houses have historic stucco on their second floors and whose end corners carry cast-stone finials. Its two-bay north wall faces the through-block path. Each floor there was laid out with one six-over-six window and one smaller four-over-four, with three-pane basement windows below and a brick chimney rising just west of the second bay.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Commission finds owners have fenced off parts of Washington Court's shared gardens
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Washington Court, which includes No. 39-40, has 86 row houses in eight rows around three interior garden courts on the block of 39th Avenue, 46th Street, Skillman Avenue and 45th Street. The commission's 2007 report found that one owner had annexed his share of the northern garden and fenced across its path, the owners on 45th Street had enclosed the western part of the center garden, and two owners had fenced off the north end of the southern one.
“At the center court garden, all owners whose houses face 45th Street have fenced their entire tax lot…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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