39-22 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 anchors the north end of a 13-house Roosevelt Court row under a steep gabled roof
No. 39-22 is the northernmost of 13 Roosevelt Court row houses built in 1927 along 48th Street from 39-22 to 39-46, mixing three house types. It and its neighbor at 39-24, together with Nos. 39-42 and 39-44 near the south end, have slate-shingled gable roofs with eaves to the street, pitched steeply enough to hold a third story. The center houses have flat roofs and sit back from the street line, and the southernmost house, also flat-roofed, is set back even farther.
“The slated shi ngled, gable roofs of the second, third, twelfth and 13 th buildings are eaves front and pitched steeply to create a third story.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
A 2007 survey finds this house's porch closed in with brick and a picture window
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No. 39-22 is a type A house on Roosevelt Court's 48th Street frontage. By the Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2007 survey, its porch had been filled in with brick and fitted with a picture window, a rigid awning and a new door, and its facade had been repointed. At the back, sliding windows had replaced the paired six-over-six sash on the second floor.
“…non-historic brick porch infill, picture window, light, rigid awning & door at front of 1st floor…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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