39-74 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
Flat-roofed 39-74 is built set back at the center of a Washington Court row
Built in 1926, No. 39-74 is one of six flat-roofed, two-story houses recessed from the street at the middle of an eleven-house Washington Court row on 46th Street, with taller gabled houses near either end. Projecting bay windows and header sills that continue across the front as a string course decorate the row. The row's grassy front yard is mostly continuous, broken only by concrete walks and a few fences.
“The flat roof, center six buildings are recessed from the streetwall ... The grassy front yard is mostly continuous, divided by concrete entry paths and some individual fences.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
No. 39-74's porch is enclosed behind a picture window and aluminum siding
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By the 2007 designation survey, the porch of 39-74 had been closed in with vertical wood infill holding a picture window at the front and a door and casement windows on the side, and aluminum siding covered the porch gable. A through-wall air conditioner projected between the second-floor windows. In front, a scalloped cast-stone curb edges an areaway paved with bluestone, and brick steps and a brick walk lead to the door.
“…non-historic vertical wood infill and altered openings at porch - picture window at front, door and casement windows at side; light near door; aluminum siding in porch gable…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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