39-96 44th Street
Sunnyside | built 1927
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1927
Sunnyside's planners build this house in Madison Court North, turning its rows away from the street
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This house belongs to Madison Court North, raised in 1927 on the western edge of Sunnyside Gardens. Rather than lining the street, its houses stand in six paired rows of eight set at right angles to 44th Street, each pair facing a shared garden. Clarence Stein explained that the plan kept as few houses as possible looking out on the repetitive rows of neighboring speculative builders and gave residents a feeling of enclosure. Front doors are reached from 44th Street by a path and brick steps up to a raised garden behind a retaining wall.
“Built at the edge of the property in 1927, with the “purpose to front as few houses as possible toward the outside builders’ monotonous rows”…”
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