39-45 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
39-45 48th Street is built in 1927 as part of Jefferson Court, with a back door on 49th Street
No. 39-45 was one of a pair of row houses, with No. 39-47, that the Landmarks Preservation Commission dates to 1927, in the Jefferson Court section of Sunnyside Gardens. The commission lists the house under a second address as well, 39-44 49th Street. It stands on tax lot 50 of Queens block 133.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
39-45 48th Street forms half of the base of a U-shaped group around a garden court
No. 39-45 and its mirror twin at No. 39-47 are two-story houses with attics under slate-covered gables, set across the bottom of a U of houses that wraps a central court garden and set at a right angle to the street grid. Their entries have carved wood brackets carrying simple hoods. By 2007 the north side, facing a service driveway, had an infilled porch, a PVC railing on the second-floor terrace and a half-paved yard.
“These two houses compose the parallel to the street-bottom portion of a U-shaped group of houses, set perpendicular to the stre et grid…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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