39-33 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
39-33 47th Street is built with a doorway to a path running through the house to the rear
This Roosevelt Court house, the only one in its row of type F', was built with a doorway in the first bay of its ground floor instead of a six-over-six window. The door opened onto a path running through the building to the rear facades of the row.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Landmark survey finds the old passage door at 39-33 47th Street bricked up around a basement window
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By the 2007 landmark survey, the through-building doorway at 39-33 had been filled with brick and fitted with a basement window. A widened first-floor opening with paired windows had also cut into a decorative panel and pilaster, the porch was sided in aluminum, and two air conditioners projected through the second-floor wall.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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