39-90 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
The block's 1927 easements are set to last forty years, though some Madison Court garden paths are protected for good
The easements for tax block 182, which includes 39-90 44th Street, are dated 1927, and owners signed such covenants when they bought their lots. The banks granting the mortgages insisted that most restrictions run only forty years, generally until 1966. A few were meant to last forever, such as rights for utility lines and rules keeping light and air from being blocked, and at Madison Court the walkways through some of the shared gardens were also placed under these permanent easements.
“At Madison Court, the sidewalks through some of the common gardens were also covered by the perpetual easements.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
A one-story addition with big sliding windows fills the house's side by 2007
The 2007 landmark survey found that 39-90 44th Street had gained a one-story, flat-roofed addition across the full width of its side facing 43rd Street. The addition has large sliding windows set between vinyl siding and brick piers, and a wood and glass door had been put in upstairs, while a single-pane window took the place of the old gable vent. A metal fence on a brick cheek wall surrounds the grassy side yard.
“There is a one-story, flat roof, side addition with large sliding windows framed by vinyl siding and brick piers at the first floor.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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