39-41 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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1974
The City Planning Commission puts 39-41 45th Street under special preservation zoning
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After the Sunnyside easements expired and residents split over whether to keep the original design, the City Planning Commission in 1974 created a Special Planned Community Preservation District here; the city had only four such districts. The zoning required permits for changes to building exteriors and landscapes, but it did not require owners to undo alterations made between 1966 and 1974, many of which survived.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
39-41 45th Street's front bay is found clad in white with a red roof in the 2007 landmarks survey
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39-41 is a three-bay Washington Court row house of 1926 with its entry on the left and a projecting window bay. In 2007 the Landmarks Preservation Commission recorded the bay clad in white with a red roof and single-pane flanking windows, aluminum one-over-one sash elsewhere, a red metal awning at the door, sliding windows at the basement, and an antenna on the asphalt-shingled roof.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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