Day 1346

132-49½

September 6th, 2015





The odd little house at 132-49½ 41st Avenue, which sits directly behind a larger brick building and backs up to the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch (you can see the platforms of the line's Flushing-Main Street station in the background above), is accessible only via a narrow walkway from 41st Avenue.

The house was concealed from the view of passersby for the vast majority of its life, until the two houses that stood to its east — on what is now the empty lot pictured above — were demolished in 2012 or 2013.

UPDATE: The aforementioned empty lot is empty no longer. A Street View image from October 2017 shows a new six-story apartment building nearing completion on the site, making 132-49½ invisible from the street once again.


One Comment

  1. Judy kay says:

    This story sounds just like the children’s book, “The Little House” by Virginia Lee Burton. I used to read it to my children.
    https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Little_House.html?id=kWALdSz6EPMC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button

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