Roosevelt Court
39-39 47th Street | Sunnyside | built 1927
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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.
- 1927
Roosevelt Court's 74 row houses fill the block east of 47th Street
This house is part of Roosevelt Court, 74 row houses in eight rows covering most of the block between 39th Avenue, 48th Street, Skillman Avenue and 47th Street. The rows are paired around four interior garden courts. Only the northernmost garden survives whole; by 2007 much of the rest had been taken into fenced private yards, and the shared lawns of the two southern courts were gone.
“The 74 row houses of Roosevelt Court, divided into eight rows, cover most of the block bounded by 39th Avenue (north), 48th Street (east)…”
- 1927
No. 39-39 is built in 1927; its porch is later enclosed with multicolored wood and fish-scale shingles
Built in 1927 as a two-story row house in Roosevelt Court, 39-39 later had its entry porch enclosed with wood infill in several colors, fish-scale wood shingles and multicolored painted trim. The 2007 survey also found its brick front cleaned and its basement fitted with a new door and sliding windows.
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