39-33 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.

1926
A declaration of easements for this block forbids fences and exterior changes without the trustees' consent
The Declaration of Easements and Restrictions for Block 133, the block where this Jefferson Court house was built, is dated September 15, 1926. Sunnyside's declarations kept the middle of each block open for all residents and barred owners from putting up garages, fences, hedges, clothes poles, radio poles, signs or awnings. Changes to porches or exteriors, even a new paint color, needed the written consent of trustees, and speculative resale was banned for the first three years.
“…owners could erect no garage of any kind or nature...no fences, hedges, outbuildings, clothing poles or lines, radio poles or lines, signs or awnings shall be erected…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1927
Built in 1927, this Jefferson Court house still has its original front door and door surround
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This flat-roofed brick house, a G' type in its seven-house row facing an interior garden court, was built in 1927 for Jefferson Court. The 2007 landmark survey found its historic door, with a storm door, and its historic door surround still in place, while paired casement windows had been put in on the first floor. Its rear facade had been repointed, and a PVC picket fence ran along the side of the yard.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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