39-21 47th Street
Sunnyside | built 1927
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1927
39-21 47th Street opens a 13-house Roosevelt Court row with a steep slate roof
This house heads a row of 13 two-story houses numbered 39-21 through 39-45 47th Street, which the Landmarks report dates to 1927 and assigns to Roosevelt Court. The row mixes flat roofs with steep slate gables, and 39-21 is one of the two at the north end whose eaves-front roof is pitched sharply enough to hold a third story.
- 2007
Landmarks survey finds new windows and copper dormers at 39-21 47th Street
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The house's two-bay north wall faces one of the through-block walkways that lead into Roosevelt Court's garden courts. By 2007 the original six-over-six sash on that side had been replaced with one-over-one windows and single-pane casements, and the facade had been cleaned and repointed. At the back, a window had taken the place of the first-floor door, beside paired sliding doors in a widened opening, and copper dormers with three casements sat on the roof front and rear.
- 2007
Landmarks survey finds most of Roosevelt Court's shared gardens fenced off as private yards
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Roosevelt Court's 74 row houses, in eight rows on the block between 47th and 48th Streets, were laid out around four interior garden courts. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission documented the block for the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District, only the northernmost garden was still intact and ringed by its path. Elsewhere much of the common ground had been annexed into fenced private yards, and the two southernmost courts had lost their shared space entirely.
“…much of the other central court garden space has been annexed into private yards, surrounded by individual fences…”
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