39-61 43rd 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
Madison Court South's row of ten houses rises around a shared interior garden, 39-61 among them
No. 39-61 43rd Street stands in a row facing 43rd Street at Madison Court South. Madison Court, whose northern houses went up in 1927, was planned as a single court; its southern part set three rows of houses around the edges of the block's south end, enclosing a common garden that survives. The court was split into Madison Court North and Madison Court South in the 1960s, after its first easements lapsed. Sunnyside historian Herbert Reynolds linked the split to the higher cost of maintaining the northern mews.
“The three rows of buildings in Madison Court South are arranged around the perimeter of the southern end of the block, surrounding an intact, interior garden court.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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