39-49 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
39-49 45th Street goes up among the six recessed center houses of a Washington Court row
Built in 1926 as part of Washington Court, 39-49 45th Street sits in a row of twelve houses on the east side of 45th Street, on lot 27 of Block 154. The six middle houses of the row, 39-43 to 39-53, are set back from the hipped-roof houses flanking them and share slate-covered side-gable roofs. The row's end houses turn sideways to face the through-block paths, and the row is trimmed with projecting bay windows, brick pilasters and brick soldier courses.
“The slate shingled, side gable roof, center six buildings are recessed from the streetwall…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
The second story of 39-49 45th Street keeps its historic stucco, painted cream
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In the 2007 survey, 39-49 45th Street, a type A row house, retained the stucco that the report describes as historic on the second floors of 39-43 through 39-53, painted cream. The porch had been closed in with vertical wood infill with altered openings and a single one-over-one window, and the whole front areaway had been paved behind a chain-link fence. Asphalt shingles covered the roof, and sliding windows with a grille served the basement.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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