39-52 44th Street

Sunnyside | built 1927

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

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1927
Madison Court North rises at the edge of Sunnyside Gardens with rows turned away from the street
Built in 1927 on the westernmost block of the development, Madison Court North broke from Sunnyside's usual perimeter rows. Its houses stand perpendicular to 44th Street in six paired rows of eight around central gardens, so that as few houses as possible faced outside builders' rows. Residents reach the raised gardens by brick steps from 44th Street, while service drives serve the basements behind.
“Built at the edge of the property in 1927 ... set perpendicular to the street, in six, paired rows of eight buildings fronting a central court garden…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Madison Court North house trades its tripartite window for paired sash
No. 39-52 is a type B' house in Madison Court North's 1927 row of eight, whose first floor was built with a tripartite window. By the 2007 landmark designation, paired one-over-one aluminum windows had replaced it, the door was non-historic behind an aluminum storm door, and a concrete stoop with a metal railing led up from a scalloped cast-stone curb.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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