39-23 48th Street

Sunnyside | built 1927

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1927
This house gets a pitched slate roof that sets it apart from the flat-roofed houses to its north
Nos. 39-23 and 39-25 close the south end of the 1927 Harrison Place row on 48th Street, and they are the only two of its seven houses with pitched, slate-shingled roofs whose eaves face the street. The five houses to the north have flat roofs and decorative brick parapets. The row's house types run I', I, I', I, I', U and U', so this house, a type U, is paired with its mirror image at 39-25. The row's grassy front yards sit behind fences, masonry walls or low curbs.
“The last two buildings, 39-23 and 39-25 48th Street , have slate shingled, eaves front, pitched roofs.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1927
Harrison Place groups 83 row houses around a single shared garden, unlike other Sunnyside courts
This house belongs to Harrison Place, whose 83 row houses are split into nine rows spread over parts of five tax blocks around 39th Avenue. Unlike the other Sunnyside courts, every main facade in Harrison Place faces the street, and because no row fills a whole block there is just one central garden. By 2007 the Landmarks Preservation Commission found that much of that shared garden had been absorbed into private yards and fenced off.
“…this court is unique in that all primary facades face the street…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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