39-45 47th Street

also 39-47 47th Street, 39-49 47th 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
39-45 47th Street goes up in 1927 as the turned end house of a 13-house Roosevelt Court row
Roosevelt Court's row of 13 houses at 39-21 to 39-45 47th Street dates from 1927, mixing flat-roofed and gabled two-story houses of four types. No. 39-45 closes the row at its south end. It has a flat roof trimmed with bluestone coping, geometric brickwork and stepped piers at the parapet, and it is set farther back than its neighbors and turned perpendicular to the row so that it faces the through-block path.
“The flat roof, southernmost building is farther recessed and set perpendicular to the row, facing the through-block path.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
The 2007 survey finds 39-45 still keeping its brick porch and two-story cast-iron side porch
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When Sunnyside Gardens was designated a historic district in 2007, the survey of 39-45 47th Street recorded several original features. On the path side it keeps its brick enclosed porch, an old door and one original casement window upstairs; on the 47th Street side stands the two-story cast-iron porch with an old screened door at the second floor. Aluminum and vinyl one-over-one windows have replaced the rest of the sash.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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