39-08 48th 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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2007
Landmarks survey records 39-08's original front door, hood and door surround
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The commission's 2007 survey of the row found that 39-08 still has its historic front door, set within its original door hood and surround, though its windows are now vinyl one-over-one units. Non-historic changes include a door with a grille, a brick and cast-stone wall, sliding windows with grilles and a painted foundation at the basement level, along with window guards on the second floor and a satellite dish on the roof. The parapet has been repointed and keeps a bluestone coping.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Roosevelt Court, the garden court around this row, has lost most of its shared lawns
This house belongs to Roosevelt Court, whose 74 row houses in eight rows fill most of the block between 39th Avenue, 48th Street, Skillman Avenue and 47th Street. The paired rows were laid out around four interior garden courts reached by three through-block paths. By 2007 only the northernmost garden survived intact with its surrounding path; residents had fenced much of the rest into private yards, and the shared green space of the two southern courts was gone entirely.
“The 74 row houses of Roosevelt Court, divided into eight rows, cover most of the block bounded by 39th Avenue (north), 48th Street (east)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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