39-07 47th Street

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 is laid out as eight rows around four shared garden courts
Roosevelt Court's 74 row houses stand in eight rows filling most of the block between 39th Avenue, 48th Street, Skillman Avenue and 47th Street. The paired rows enclose four interior garden courts, reached by three paths that cut through the block between the rows. By 2007 much of this common ground had been taken into fenced private yards: the two southern gardens had no shared green left, and only the northernmost garden still had its full ring of paths.
“…much of the other central court garden space has been annexed into private yards, surrounded by individual fences…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
A 2007 survey finds 39-07's porch bricked in but an old basement door still in place
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission classed 39-07 47th Street as row house Type P', the mirror-image version of the Type P house beside it. Its 2007 survey found the porch filled in with brick and fitted with casement windows, the facade cleaned, and a historic door with a grille still at the basement entrance.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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