39-53 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
39-53 45th Street joins Washington Court, 86 row houses ringing three interior gardens
Washington Court fills the block between 45th and 46th Streets and 39th and Skillman Avenues with 86 row houses in eight rows; 39-53 45th Street, on lot 25, belongs to its 1926 row on 45th Street. Through-block paths break the rows every six to 13 houses, and four of them lead to three garden courts at the center of the block. Each house has its own front and rear yard besides the shared gardens.
“The 86 row houses of Washington Court, divided into eight rows, cover the block bounded by 39th Avenue (north), 46th Street…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
A skylit form-stone porch with sidelights fronts 39-53 45th Street in 2007
The 2007 survey of 39-53 45th Street, a type A house in Washington Court, found its porch filled in with form-stone and altered openings around a central entry flanked by sidelights, with a skylight in the porch roof and a mailbox and lights mounted on it. Form-stone also covered the second floor. The yard was laid with brick and bluestone pavers behind a chain-link fence, and the house had vinyl one-over-one windows and a non-historic door.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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