49-17 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
Flat-roofed house closes the Harrison Place row at the corner of 50th Street
No. 49-17 is the easternmost of nine two-story row houses built in 1928 on the north side of 39th Avenue as part of Harrison Place, a Sunnyside Gardens court. It and its neighbors 49-13 and 49-15 have flat roofs, stand a little behind the others, and are crowned with patterned brick parapets: checkerboards, stepped corbelled piers, projecting triangles and bluestone coping. The six houses to the west have slate gable roofs. By 2007 paired aluminum casements filled every window opening and the open rear porch had been bricked in.
“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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