39-03 47th Street

also 47-02 39th Avenue | Sunnyside | built 1927

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1927
Roosevelt Court's 47th Street row begins with a corner house joined to a building on 39th Avenue
No. 39-03 is the first of seven row houses on the east side of 47th Street dated 1927 and assigned to Roosevelt Court. It belongs to the five flat-roofed houses at the north end, which sit back from the street line and carry geometric brick coursing with diamond-shaped patterns. At its northeast corner it adjoins 47-08 39th Avenue, which is set at a right angle to face the avenue and is described separately in the Landmarks Preservation Commission's report.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Landmarks surveyors find the house is the only one of its design in Sunnyside Gardens
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In its 2007 survey of Sunnyside Gardens, the Landmarks Preservation Commission gave 39-03 47th Street a row house category of its own, Type Z. The facade has four bays, with three six-over-six windows on each floor and an entrance that once stood in the fourth bay. Brick pilasters mark its ends and the doorway has no ornament. With just one Type Z building, the report notes, there is no mirror-image version.
“Because there is only one Type Z building, there is no mirror image or Z'.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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