39-50 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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1926
Washington Court's row keeps its original enclosed porch at 39-50 46th Street
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No. 39-50 is one of the six middle houses in a 1926 Washington Court row of twelve, set back slightly under a slate side-gable roof, with stucco covering the second story. In its 2007 survey the Landmarks Preservation Commission found that this house and its neighbors at 39-48 and 39-52 still had their historic enclosed porches, windows and doors.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
April 17
Washington Court neighbors tell the Landmarks Commission most residents want a historic district
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At the Landmarks Preservation Commission's hearing on a Sunnyside Gardens Historic District, speakers from the Washington Court Association, the court this house belongs to, said most of its residents supported designation. The hearing drew 138 speakers in favor and 27 opposed, among them the Institute for Justice. The Commission designated the district on June 26, 2007.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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