39-68 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
A sideways-turned house anchors the north end of a ten-house row in Lincoln Court
Built in 1926 in Sunnyside Gardens' Lincoln Court, this flat-roofed house is the northernmost of a row of ten on 45th Street. Set back more deeply than the rest, it is turned perpendicular to the row so that its front looks onto the through-block path, while a three-bay side wall faces 45th Street and a two-bay side faces the interior garden court.
“The flat roof, northernmost building is more recessed a nd set perpendicular to the row, facing the through-block path.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
June 26
A historic two-story cast-iron porch survives on the 45th Street side of 39-68 45th Street
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2007 district report noted that the house's street-facing side keeps its historic two-story cast-iron porch, with doors on both floors in the middle bay, set in a large grassy side yard edged by a low concrete curb. On the garden-court side, historic six-over-six wood windows were still in place on both floors.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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