39-45 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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1926
Most Sunnyside residents earn moderate incomes in 1926, the year 39-45 45th Street is built
In 1926, the year this Washington Court house was finished, two-thirds of Sunnyside Gardens residents earned less than the $3,000 median, and most first buyers had incomes between $1,200 and $3,500. The developers had hoped to reach poorer workers but could not cut costs enough. Half of the first residents came from the Lower East Side, many of them Irish and German immigrants, bringing Labor, Communist and Conservative politics with them.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
39-45 45th Street keeps its historic bluestone front path in the 2007 landmarks survey
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39-45 is a two-bay row house with its entry on the left, mirror image of 39-43 next door and one of the stucco-fronted center houses of its 1926 Washington Court row. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2007 survey found aluminum one-over-one windows, a non-historic door behind a metal and glass storm door, and a concrete step, with a historic bluestone path crossing the front yard behind a chain-link fence.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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