39-55 44th 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
39-55 44th Street ends a 1926 Lincoln Court row with a two-story cast-iron porch
39-55 44th Street is the southern end house of a row of 14 in Lincoln Court, set back and turned sideways to face a through-block path. Its three-bay side wall faces 44th Street, where a historic cast-iron porch two stories high frames a door on each floor. A chain-link fence encloses its large, grassy side yard.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
Lincoln Court wraps 78 row houses, including 39-55 44th Street, around three shared gardens
Lincoln Court, where 39-55 44th Street stands, fills the block bounded by 39th Avenue, 45th Street, Skillman Avenue and 44th Street with 78 row houses. Rows of eight to 14 houses are broken by through-block paths, and some fronts are turned to face those paths. Three paired rows enclose three interior garden courts circled by a walk, and each house also has its own front and back yard.
“The 78 row houses of Lincoln Court cover the block bounded by 39th Avenue (north), 45th Street (east), Skillman Avenue (south), and 44th Street (west)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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