39-44 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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1925
December 31
Easements for Washington Court's block, including 39-44 46th Street, bind buyers for forty years
The deed easements for Blocks 154 and 155 are dated December 31, 1925; Block 154 is the Washington Court block that includes 39-44 46th Street. Buyers signed these covenants when they bought their lots, committing them to the architects' plan for houses, planting and shared space. Because the banks lending the mortgages insisted, most of the restrictions ran for forty years, generally to 1966, while a few, such as keeping setbacks for light and air, were permanent.
“…we have copies of the easements for Blocks 154 and 155 (dated December 31, 1925)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
39-44 46th Street goes up as one of six slate-roofed center houses in a Washington Court row
Number 39-44 is one of twelve two-story houses built in 1926 on the west side of 46th Street, from 39-36 to 39-60, in Washington Court. The six center houses, 39-44 through 39-54, have slate side-gable roofs set slightly back from the street line, and historic stucco covers their second floors. Brick piers, soldier courses above the foundation and elliptical fan panels over the paired doorways decorate the row.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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