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Harrison Place

Eighty-three row houses in nine rows extend across portions of five blocks, with every principal facade oriented toward the street.

Accessible proportional rendering of the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission existing-conditions plan of Harrison Place. Buildings, streets, paths, open space, fences, gates, and trees remain labeled as documented in the designation report.
LPC existing-conditions plan · not to scale and not a survey. Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report.
Buildings83 row houses
Row arrangement9 rows
Tax blocks5
Historic garages25

Plan and composition

How the Court Is Organized

Harrison Place is distributed along and around 39th Avenue rather than concentrated on a single block. Its nine rows vary in length, setback, roof type and height, but all principal facades face public streets.

That outward orientation distinguishes Harrison Place from the inward-facing mews courts. Each house has front and rear garden space, while paths run behind seven of the nine rows.

Landscape and circulation

Gardens, Paths and Shared Space

Only one central garden court was created: the northern part of the block enclosed by rows facing 48th Street, 49th Street and 39th Avenue.

The LPC report records that much of this court had been incorporated into individually fenced yards by designation. A row of twenty-five one-story brick garages stands behind the 39th Avenue row between 51st and 52nd Streets.

What makes it distinctive. Harrison Place shows how Sunnyside Gardens adapted its architectural vocabulary to a more conventional street-facing arrangement and a dispersed set of sites along 39th Avenue.