51-02 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
Harrison Place's row houses, unlike Sunnyside's other courts, all face the street
No. 51-02 starts the Harrison Place row on 39th Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets. Harrison Place, a Sunnyside Gardens court of 83 row houses in nine rows spread over five tax blocks, is the one court whose main facades all look onto the street. Every house has its own front and back yard, and the court's lone common garden, framed by rows on 48th Street, 49th Street and 39th Avenue, has largely been fenced off into private yards.
“…this court is unique in that all primary facades face the street…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1928
The corner house at 51st Street is built with open brick porches that are later enclosed
No. 51-02, a type G house on the 51st Street corner, originally had an open brick porch on its west side and another at the rear. Both were later bricked in: the side porch received multi-pane steel casements and a semicircular transom, and the back porch a steel picture window. The front still had its historic door, door surround and hood, and the basement its three-light awning windows, when the Landmarks Preservation Commission recorded the house.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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