39-20 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
Most of Roosevelt Court's shared gardens have been fenced into private yards by 2007
Roosevelt Court, which includes this house, was laid out with four interior garden courts formed by paired rows of houses, reached by three through-block paths. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described the court in 2007, only the northernmost garden survived intact with its surrounding path. Much of the rest had been taken into private yards behind individual fences, the two southernmost gardens had been eliminated entirely, and only two small pieces of the second garden remained.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
A 2007 survey finds replacement windows on this end house's side wall along the through-block path
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No. 39-20 is the southernmost house of a seven-house Roosevelt Court row built in 1927, so its two-bay side wall faces the through-block path to the garden behind. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2007 survey found one-over-one windows replacing the historic six-over-six sash on both floors and in the gable, a chain-link fence around the small side yard, and, at the back, a non-historic enclosed porch in the fourth bay of the rear wall.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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