49-08 39th Avenue

Sunnyside | built 1928

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 1928

    49-08 39th Avenue rises in 1928 as the fourth house of a ten-house Harrison Place row

    Counting from the 49th Street corner, this type B row house is the fourth of the ten Harrison Place houses finished in 1928 on the south side of 39th Avenue. It shares the row's slate-shingled pitched roof, soldier-course brick above the foundation and projecting header sills, and its front door has a paneled wood surround with a hood carried on wood columns. The row's grassy front yards are edged by low curbs or chain-link fences.

    “Other decorative details include brick soldier coursing above the foundation, projecting header sills, double header string coursing at the second floor…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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