39-47 45th Street

Sunnyside | built 1926

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1925
December 31
Easements dated the last day of 1925 bind the Washington Court block that holds 39-47 45th Street
The house at 39-47 45th Street occupies lot 28 of Block 154, the Washington Court block, and the declaration of easements for that block carries the date December 31, 1925. Buyers agreed to the covenants in their deeds. Mortgage lenders pressed for limits, so most were set to run forty years, generally until 1966, while a handful, including rules keeping setbacks open for light and air, were meant to last forever.
“…we have copies of the easements for Blocks 154 and 155 (dated December 31, 1925)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Cream-painted stucco and a bluestone path survive at 39-47 45th Street
Surveyed for the 2007 designation, 39-47 45th Street is a type A' house in Washington Court's 1926 row. The second floor still wears stucco, now painted cream, and a historic bluestone path crosses the front yard behind a chain-link fence on a scalloped cast-stone curb. Changes included vinyl one-over-one windows, jalousie windows in the basement, and a porch filled in with vertical wood siding, altered openings and paired sliding windows, with a flagpole mounted on it.
“…historic bluestone path; jalousie windows at basement; non-historic, vertical wood porch infill…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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