39-18 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 is built as part of Roosevelt Court, 74 row houses filling most of a Sunnyside block
Roosevelt Court, the group this house belongs to, has 74 row houses in eight rows covering most of the block between 39th Avenue, 48th Street, Skillman Avenue and 47th Street. The rows line the edges of the block like ordinary row houses, but their lengths, setbacks, roofs and heights vary, and through-block paths break them every six to 13 houses. The Commodore Apartments at the Skillman Avenue end of the block are not part of the court and fall outside the historic district.
“The 74 row houses of Roosevelt Court, divided into eight rows, cover most of the block…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1927
This house and its neighbor at 39-20 receive gabled slate roofs at the south end of a 1927 row
The Roosevelt Court row from 39-04 to 39-20 48th Street holds seven houses built in 1927. The five to the north have flat roofs and sit back from the street, but Nos. 39-18 and 39-20, the two southernmost, rise under slate-shingled gable roofs with their eaves toward the street. Unlike most of the row, these two have no basement entry under the porch or stoop. The row's flat-roofed houses are trimmed with diamond-patterned and corbelled brick and faceted brick colonettes.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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