Judy Holliday childhood home

39-45 44th 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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1927
Six-year-old Judith Tuvim, the future Judy Holliday, moves into this new house with her mother
After Helen and Abraham Tuvim divorced in 1927, Helen and their only child, Judith, left their apartment at 251 East 108th Street in Manhattan for this newly built Sunnyside house. Judith, born June 21, 1921, grew up here with a love of music and acting that her mother, a piano teacher, encouraged. As Judy Holliday she won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Actress for "Born Yesterday."
Source: qchron.com
2007
Lincoln Court row house keeps one of the row's two surviving historic enclosed porches
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The house belongs to a 1926 Lincoln Court row of 14 houses on 44th Street that mixes flat-roofed and slate-gabled designs. When Sunnyside Gardens was designated a historic district in 2007, the Landmarks Preservation Commission found that only this house and No. 39-27 still had their historic enclosed porches. Its report also notes that Judy Holliday lived here.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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