50-22 39th Avenue

also 39-02 51st Street | 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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1931
The corner shop building at 51st Street ends the 39th Avenue row with a second facade
No. 50-22 is the easternmost of the six two-story buildings with stores below and flats above that went up around 1931 on 39th Avenue. Because it holds the corner lot, it has a second front facing east onto 51st Street, and it stands apart from the symmetrical composition formed by its five neighbors, Nos. 50-12 to 50-20. Like them, it carries Art Deco brick ornament at its stepped parapet, though its original storefronts are gone.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
A restaurant and an empty former barbershop share the 51st Street side of 50-22
When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed the building's east side, also numbered 39-02 to 39-10 51st Street, it found two storefronts there. A restaurant took up most of the building toward the north, while the southern end held a vacant shop that looked as if it had been a barbershop. Both storefronts had been entirely remodeled, and steel roll-up gates hung over every door and window on that side.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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