49-13 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
49-13 opens the trio of flat-roofed houses at the east end of its 1928 row
At 49-13 39th Avenue the Harrison Place row of nine changes from pitched roofs to flat ones: this house and its two eastern neighbors, 49-15 and 49-17, stand slightly back from the street wall. Their parapets are decorated in brick, with flat checkerboard patterns, stepped corbelled piers and projecting triangles under bluestone coping. Across the whole row, squares of clinker brick appear at the second floor and a brick soldier course runs above the foundation.
“The last three, flat roof buildings, 49-13, 49-15 and 49-17 39th Avenue, are slightly recessed from the streetwall and have decorative brickwork at the parapet…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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