39-29 47th 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
39-29 47th Street goes up in a 13-house Roosevelt Court row on 47th Street
Built in 1927, this house is the fifth in a row of 13 on the east side of 47th Street that mixes four house types. It is one of the row's flat-roofed center houses, which are set back from the street and topped with bluestone coping, a toothed brick cornice and triangular and cross-shaped brickwork. The first, second, eleventh and twelfth houses instead have steep slate gable roofs that create a third story.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Landmark report finds most of Roosevelt Court's shared gardens taken into private yards
Roosevelt Court's 74 row houses, this one among them, were laid out in eight rows around four interior garden courts. By the 2007 landmark designation, only the northernmost garden was still whole; much of the rest had been taken into fenced private yards, the two southern gardens were gone entirely, and the Commodore Apartments on Skillman Avenue were left out of the district.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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