40-16 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
40-16 44th Street goes up as one of a row of ten at Madison Court South
This house went up in 1927 as one of ten row houses facing west onto 44th Street in what the Landmarks Preservation Commission calls Madison Court South, part of Sunnyside Gardens. It is one of the six middle houses, which have flat roofs behind plain parapets with cast-stone coping, while the two pairs at the ends of the row carry slate-covered gable roofs. Soldier-course brick bands run above the foundation and the second-floor windows.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
40-16 44th Street keeps its old front-yard layout and a wood picket gate
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When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed the house in 2007, it still had the historic front-yard arrangement with a wooden picket gate, and a wood picket fence stood at the basement. Other parts had changed: paired windows had taken the place of the original three-part windows on both floors, a rigid green metal awning sheltered the door, and an air-conditioning unit had been set into the wall below the upstairs windows.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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