51-06 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
Stein and Wright put this row's garages out back to keep cars away from home life
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Sunnyside's architects chose to separate cars and garages from the main living areas, since many people still saw the automobile as an intrusion on family life. Clarence Stein and Henry Wright placed garages a short distance from the houses, usually on less desirable land. One of their arrangements is the row of 25 one-story brick garages behind the 1928 houses on 39th Avenue, then Middleburg Avenue, between 51st Street (Stone Street) and 52nd Street (Dickson Street), the row that includes No. 51-06.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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