39-04 49th Street

also 48-18 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
Row houses on the north end of this block break away from Jefferson Court's garden plan
This house, also numbered 48-18 39th Avenue, stands on tax block 133, whose northern part was first built as part of Jefferson Court and is now counted in Harrison Place. Sunnyside historian Herbert Reynolds told LPC researchers in 2007 that these houses were laid out in a conventional street-facing row, rather than around a mews court, because the mews arrangement cost more, including the upkeep of paving, sewer and electrical lines.
“The northern portion of tax block 133 (now part of Harrison Place) was originally constructed as part of Jefferson Court.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1927
The end house of a Harrison Place row turns to face 49th Street and has a two-story iron porch
48-18 39th Avenue ends a row of seven Harrison Place houses built in 1927. Like its partner at the other end, it is set back from the street wall and turned sideways to face 49th Street. Its flat roof is edged with bluestone coping and patterned brick. Its three-bay north side, facing 39th Avenue across a large side yard, has a door on each floor behind a historic cast-iron porch two stories high.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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