39-17 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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1927
This house, first built as part of Jefferson Court, ends up in Harrison Place
This house stands on the northern part of tax block 133, which was originally built as part of Jefferson Court, a court of mews-style rows. According to Sunnyside historian Herbert Reynolds, interviewed in May 2007, the conventional street-facing rows were split off from the mews court because the mews layout cost more to keep up, with its paving, sewer and electrical lines. The house is now counted as part of Harrison Place.
“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
A row of seven brick houses rises on the east side of 48th Street, with this one among its flat-roofed middle
Built in 1927 for Harrison Place, the row runs from 39-11 to 39-25 48th Street and mixes two house types and their mirror images. This house, No. 39-17, is one of the first five, which sit slightly back from the street line under flat roofs edged with bluestone coping. Their parapets carry patterned brickwork: soldier courses, diamonds of clinker brick, stepped corbelled piers and a toothed brick cornice. Wooden door hoods on brackets or columns and projecting window bays finish the fronts.
“The first five buildings are recessed slightly from the streetwall and have flat roofs with bluestone coping…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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