39-13 48th Street

Sunnyside | built 1927

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1926
September 15
Easements for this block bar fences, new paint colors and quick resales
A declaration of easements for Block 133, the tax block that holds this row, is dated September 15, 1926. Sunnyside buyers signed such covenants when they bought, barring fences, hedges, clothes lines, signs and awnings, and forbidding changes to porches or even a new exterior paint color without the trustees' written consent. The deeds also blocked speculative resale in the first three years, and at the banks' insistence most of the easements ran for forty years, generally until 1966.
“…we have copies of the easements for Blocks 154 and 155 ... Block 133 (dated September 15, 1926)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Survey records 39-13's historic door and a door hood missing one of its columns
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In the 2007 landmarks survey, 39-13 still had its historic front door, protected by a metal grille, and its original door surround and hood, though one of the hood's supporting columns had been removed and its roof painted white. The basement level had jalousie windows, a door with a grille, a light and a utility box. The windows above were vinyl one-over-one replacements, and a sign had been mounted on the parapet.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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