39-42 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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1925
December 31
Deed covenants for the Lincoln Court block bar fences, clotheslines and awnings
The City Housing Corporation tied each Sunnyside lot to a Declaration of Easements and Restrictions; the one for blocks 154 and 155, the Washington and Lincoln Court blocks, is dated December 31, 1925. Owners held their lots to the middle of the block, but the covenants kept the center open for all residents. They barred garages, fences, hedges, clothes lines, radio poles, signs and awnings, and any exterior change or repainting without the trustees' written consent.
“…we have copies of the easements for Blocks 154 and 155 (dated December 31, 1925)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
39-42 45th Street's front porch is found enclosed with aluminum siding in the 2007 landmarks survey
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39-42 is a two-bay Lincoln Court row house of 1926, listed by the Landmarks Preservation Commission as its Type A. By the commission's 2007 survey its front porch had been filled in with non-historic infill and aluminum siding, a plastic awning hung over the door, and air conditioners projected through the walls below the windows on both floors.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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