39-77 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
39-77 45th Street is built in 1926 with a stepped parapet in Washington Court
The type A row house at 39-77 45th Street went up in 1926 in Washington Court, one of the Sunnyside Gardens courts. With its neighbor 39-75, it is one of two houses in the eleven-house row crowned by a stepped parapet, and both stand a little closer to the street than the other recessed flat-roofed houses.
“…with the sixth and seventh buildings slightly less recessed…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
39-77 45th Street keeps its historic windows, door and wood porch infill
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39-77 still had its historic six-over-six wood windows, historic casements at the porch, historic front and basement doors and historic wood porch infill when the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed it for the 2007 designation. The report described the house as largely intact, noting a through-wall air conditioner between the second-floor windows. A historic bluestone path led to the door.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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