39-52 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
39-52 45th Street goes up in 1926, the year the City Housing Corporation readies 300 more Sunnyside homes
At the start of 1926 the City Housing Corporation was ready to build 300 more homes at Sunnyside Gardens, and 39-52 45th Street, in Lincoln Court, dates from that year. By May 1, 1926 the company had built homes for roughly 600 households, mixing cooperative apartments with houses for one, two or three families. It kept building on the remaining land for two more years and declared the development finished in the fall of 1928.
“At the beginning of 1926, the company was ready to embark on the construction of 300 more homes…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
An enlarged first-floor opening at 39-52 45th Street holds a steel picture window
The 2007 landmarks survey covered 39-52 45th Street, a type A house in Lincoln Court on lot 85 of Block 155. Its first-floor window opening had been enlarged to hold a steel casement and picture window, and the porch was clad in grey stucco with small single-pane windows on each side of the door. The front areaway had been raised and paved except for a tree pit, behind a chain-link fence.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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