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Lincoln Court

Seventy-eight row houses use a perimeter arrangement, three paired garden courts and a network of paths to turn a conventional block into a shared landscape.

Accessible proportional rendering of the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission existing-conditions plan of Lincoln Court. 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.
Buildings78 row houses
Shared gardens3
Primary paths3 through-block routes
Block39th Ave · 45th St · Skillman Ave · 44th St

Plan and composition

How the Court Is Organized

Lincoln Court follows the perimeter pattern also seen at Hamilton, Roosevelt and Washington Courts. Variation in row length, setback, roof type and height adds movement to the streetwall.

Breaks between rows create paths, and several houses turn toward those passages. The result is a block that can be read from both the surrounding streets and the interior garden network.

Landscape and circulation

Gardens, Paths and Shared Space

Three paired sets of rows create three interior garden courts, each reached by through-block paths and connected by an interior perimeter path.

At the north end, two houses with Barnett Avenue addresses face a fourth path. Private front and rear yards supplement the shared gardens throughout the court.

What makes it distinctive. Lincoln Court uses small shifts in orientation and a strong path system to make a large perimeter block feel varied and permeable. The gardens remain visually central even though the principal rows address public streets.