39-37 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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2007
Jefferson Court's three raised garden courts, one of which this house faces, survive intact
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Jefferson Court, where this house stands, is laid out around central gardens. In its 2007 report the Landmarks Preservation Commission found all three of the court's mews gardens intact, raised above the sidewalk behind a brick retaining wall and reached by brick steps with stone or cast-stone treads. A single path climbs brick steps from 48th Street into the center garden, though many private rear yards had since been fenced or paved.
“The three, intact central court gardens, or mews courts, are elevated from street level behind a brick retaining wall…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
The survey of this Jefferson Court house finds its historic door surround and a flagpole at the entry
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No. 39-37 is a type B' row house facing an interior garden of Jefferson Court. The 2007 designation survey recorded aluminum one-over-one windows, a newer door with a grille, the historic surround at the entry and a flagpole beside it. At the back, a first-floor window had been widened into a door opening onto a deck with steps.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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