39-44 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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1927
A steep slate gable gives 39-44 48th Street a third floor in Roosevelt Court's 1927 row
No. 39-44 is the second house from the south end of a row of 13 built in 1927 on the 48th Street side of Roosevelt Court in Sunnyside Gardens. The row mixes flat-roofed houses with gabled ones, and this house is one of four whose slate-shingled roofs face the street with their eaves and rise steeply enough to hold an attic story. The Landmarks Preservation Commission classes it as row-house type A'.
“The slated shi ngled, gable roofs of the second, third, twelfth and 13 th buildings are eaves front and pitched steeply to create a third story.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Surveyors find 39-44 48th Street still holding its six-over-six wood windows
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When Sunnyside Gardens became a historic district in 2007, the Landmarks Preservation Commission's survey found No. 39-44 still had six-over-six wood sash, fitted with storm windows, along with its historic door. Later changes it recorded include brick infill closing the front porch, a non-historic door with a storm door on the second floor, and a dormer clad in composite siding on the rear of the roof.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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