39-26 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 flat-roofed house goes up in 1927 in a 13-house row of Sunnyside Gardens' Roosevelt Court
The house is one of 13 two-story brick row houses built in 1927 on the west side of 48th Street for Roosevelt Court, one of the planned courts of Sunnyside Gardens. The row mixes three house types. Four houses near its two ends have steep, slate-shingled gable roofs that hold an attic story, while the flat-roofed houses between them, this one included, stand back from the line of the street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Fenced private yards have taken over most of Roosevelt Court's shared gardens
Roosevelt Court's 74 houses, which include this one, were laid out in eight rows paired around four interior garden courts, reached by three paths cutting through the block. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described the court in 2007, much of the common green had been divided into fenced private yards and its inner paths taken out. The two southernmost gardens had disappeared completely; the northernmost survived whole, and only two small pieces of the next one remained.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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