39-52 46th Street
Sunnyside | built 1926
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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
Easements for this block bar fences, awnings and porch changes without the trustees' consent
The declaration of easements for tax block 154, the block this house stands on, is dated December 31, 1925. Buyers who signed such covenants could not put up fences, hedges, sheds, clotheslines, radio poles, signs or awnings, and could not alter porches or repaint in a different color without the trustees' written consent. The deeds also forbade reselling a house for speculation in the first three years.
“…we have copies of the easements for Blocks 154 and 155 (dated December 31, 1925)…”
- 1926
The house keeps its original porch infill and wood-and-glass front door
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Built in 1926 as part of Washington Court, 39-52 46th Street still had its historic enclosed porch infill, painted white under a green roof, when the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed it in 2007. The six-over-six wood windows remain behind storm sash, the original wood-and-glass door sits behind an aluminum storm door, and the second story is stuccoed and painted off-white.
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