50-20 39th Avenue

Sunnyside | built 1931

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

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2007
Landmark survey notes Aztec-pattern brickwork above the altered storefront at 50-20
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Describing the 39th Avenue shop row for the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District, the Landmarks Preservation Commission noted especially ornate Art Deco details on the one-bay front of No. 50-20: a stepped parapet, header-brick courses in an Aztec pattern, vertical strips of dogtoothed brick and small cast-stone crenels. The storefront below had been completely rebuilt, with an aluminum and canvas awning printed with the business's name, and the upstairs windows had become a bowed four-light bay under a shingled hood.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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