39-42 48th 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.
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- 1927
This house is built in 1927 under a steep slate gable that adds an attic story
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No. 39-42 is the third house from the south end of Roosevelt Court's 13-house row on 48th Street, dated to 1927. Along with its neighbor at 39-44 and the two houses at the row's north end, it has a slate-shingled gable roof with its eaves to the street, pitched steeply enough to hold a third floor. The houses between them have flat roofs trimmed with patterned brickwork and are set further back.
“The slated shi ngled, gable roofs of the second, third, twelfth and 13 th buildings are eaves front…”
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