39-64 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
Madison Court North turns 39-64 44th Street sideways to face a shared garden
Madison Court North, which includes 39-64 44th Street, was built in 1927 at the western edge of Sunnyside Gardens and, like Jefferson Court, broke from the street-facing rows used elsewhere in the development. Its planners, as cited from Clarence Stein, aimed to face as few houses as possible toward the plain rows of outside builders. The houses stand perpendicular to the street in paired rows of eight around central gardens, reached from 44th Street by brick steps up to a raised court behind a retaining wall.
“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
2007 survey finds a gate into the court garden at 39-64 44th Street
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2007 survey listed 39-64 44th Street, block 182, lot 30, as a type B' house with a metal gate leading into the central court garden. The brick stoop had a bluestone landing and an extended metal railing, the historic door surround remained, and the center pane of the tripartite window was a single sheet of glass. At the back, one opening had been enlarged to take a door, and a large wood deck on piers stood in the rear yard.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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