39-70 46th 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 gabled row house goes up at 39-70 46th Street in Washington Court
Dated 1926 by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, No. 39-70 belongs to a row of eleven Washington Court houses on 46th Street that mixes two-story flat-roofed houses with taller ones under gables and attics. It is one of four in the row with slate-shingled gable roofs whose eaves face the street, while the six flat-roofed houses at the center sit back from the sidewalk. Bay windows, brick soldier courses and oval wood panels over paired doors trim the row.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Fenced yards at 39-70 and its 45th Street neighbor cut into Washington Court's southern garden
Washington Court's 86 houses were arranged around three interior gardens shared by the owners behind the rows. By the 2007 designation report, the owners of 39-70 46th Street and 39-69 45th Street had fenced their yards, removing the northern part of the southernmost shared garden. Elsewhere on the block, owners of the houses facing 45th Street had fenced their whole lots, eliminating the western portion of the center garden and its path.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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