39-54 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
39-54 44th Street rises in 1927 in a Madison Court North row turned to face a garden
The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates 39-54 44th Street to 1927 and lists it in Madison Court North at Sunnyside Gardens. It belongs to a row of eight brick houses, two stories plus an attic under slate-shingled pitched roofs, set at right angles to the street grid. Their fronts look south onto a hedged central lawn edged by a scalloped cast-stone curb and black lamp posts, with each house keeping a small planted yard beside a concrete walk.
“Row of eight, two-story-plus-attic, eaves front, slate shingled, pitched roof row houses situated perpendicular to the grid, facing a central garden court…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Landmarks survey finds 39-54 44th Street with planters, roof ice guards and a raised, paved back yard
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Surveying the house for the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District, the Landmarks Preservation Commission recorded a type B row house with aluminum one-over-one windows and single-pane side lights in its tripartite front window. Planters stood along the facade, an air conditioner projected between the second-floor windows and ice guards lined the roof. At the rear, the yard had been raised and paved with concrete and cast stone.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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