49-09 39th Avenue

Sunnyside | built 1928

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

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1928
49-09 rises as part of Harrison Place, the Sunnyside court whose houses all face the street
This house belongs to Harrison Place, a court of 83 row houses split into nine rows on parts of five tax blocks around 39th Avenue. Row lengths, setbacks and roof shapes vary as in the other Sunnyside Gardens courts, but Harrison Place differs in one way: every house has its main façade toward the street. Each house has its own front and back yard, and 49-01 through 49-17 39th Avenue make up one of the nine rows.
“The 83 row houses of Harrison Place are divided into nine rows ... this court is unique in that all primary facades face the street.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Landmarks survey records a rear dormer and brick porch at 49-09 39th Avenue
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2007 survey of Sunnyside Gardens listed 49-09 39th Avenue (block 123, lot 39) as a type B' house with one-over-one vinyl windows and a replacement front door. Its original door surround and hood were still in place, the hood's roof covered in tar. At the back the survey found a brick porch, a through-wall air conditioner on the first floor and a dormer with two windows on the roof.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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