39-15 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 sets 74 row houses around four garden courts, much of them later fenced into yards
This house belongs to Roosevelt Court, whose 74 row houses in eight rows cover most of the block between 39th Avenue, 48th Street, Skillman Avenue and 47th Street. Paired rows enclose four interior garden courts reached by three through-block paths. Much of the shared garden land has since been annexed into fenced private yards: the two southern gardens are gone, only small pieces of the second garden survive, and the northernmost court remains intact, ringed by its path.
“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
1927
39-15 47th Street, built in 1927, is one of two houses in its Roosevelt Court row with its original enclosed porch
No. 39-15 is one of seven row houses built in 1927 on the east side of 47th Street between 39th Avenue and Skillman Avenue, in Roosevelt Court. Like the four other flat-roofed houses in the row, it is set back from the street, with diamond-patterned and soldier-course brickwork and a projecting bay. Its historic enclosed porch and door survive, something the commission found only here and at No. 39-11.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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