39-63 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
Number 39-63 45th Street opens an 11-house Washington Court row in 1926
The landmarks commission lists 39-63 45th Street as the first house of an 11-house Washington Court row on the east side of 45th Street, dated 1926. It is Type R, a flat-roofed house that sits farther back than the rest of the row and is turned to face the through-block path. Cast-stone coping and finials top the row's flat-roofed houses, and brick pilasters and elliptical wood panels over paired doors decorate the fronts.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
The 2007 survey finds rebuilt brick and new second-floor bays at 39-63 45th Street
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By the 2007 survey, the front of 39-63 45th Street, which faces the through-block path, had been cleaned and some of its brick replaced. Both second-floor bays had been rebuilt as slightly projecting casement windows under asphalt-shingle roofs, and a first-floor window had been made smaller. On the street side, the house had a concrete patio with brick steps and a cast-iron porch that was not original, inside a curb of wood railroad ties.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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