39-60 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
39-60 44th Street goes up in 1927 in Madison Court North, turned away from the street grid
Madison Court North, which includes 39-60 44th Street, was built in 1927 at the edge of the Sunnyside Gardens property. Its planners set the houses at right angles to the street in paired rows of eight, most facing a central garden, so that as few homes as possible would look out at the surrounding builders' rows. Residents reach the fronts by a path from 44th Street climbing brick steps to the raised gardens.
“Built at the edge of the property in 1927, with the “purpose to front as few houses as possible toward the outside builders’ monotonous rows”…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Landmarks survey finds 39-60 44th Street repointed, with vinyl windows and a clad tripartite window
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Recording 39-60 44th Street for the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District, the Landmarks Preservation Commission listed it as a type B' row house. Its brick front and rear had been repointed, vinyl one-over-one windows had been installed, the large tripartite front window was clad in aluminum and a flat panel sat above the door. A jalousie window filled the small second-floor opening at the back.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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