39-40 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.

2007
By 2007 the porch of this flat-roofed row house is closed in with composite siding
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No. 39-40 is a type A' house, the mirror image of its type A neighbors, in Roosevelt Court's row on the west side of 48th Street. The 2007 designation survey recorded its porch enclosed with modern composite siding and a vinyl window and door, a porch roof painted green, and a low brick wall at the front yard. Brick had been replaced at the second-floor lintels and the front had been repointed.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Only one of Roosevelt Court's four interior gardens is still intact at designation
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Roosevelt Court, the group this house belongs to, has 74 row houses in eight rows on the block between 39th Avenue, 48th Street, Skillman Avenue and 47th Street, arranged so that paired rows enclosed four interior gardens reached by three through-block paths. By the 2007 designation the northernmost garden survived with its path, but the two southernmost shared greens were gone and much of the other court land had been annexed into fenced private yards.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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