39-46 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
39-46 48th Street closes Roosevelt Court's 1927 row as its flat-roofed, deeply set-back end house
Built in 1927, No. 39-46 is the southernmost house in a 13-house row on 48th Street in Roosevelt Court, Sunnyside Gardens. Unlike its steeply gabled neighbor at No. 39-44, it has a flat roof. The flat-roofed houses in the middle of the row step back from the street, and this end house is set back farther still. The Landmarks Preservation Commission classes it as row-house type X.
“The flat roof, southernmost building is farther recessed and…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
39-46 48th Street keeps its two-story cast-iron porch facing the street
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Because the house is turned sideways to the row, its three-bay side wall is the one that faces 48th Street. The 2007 landmark survey found doors on both floors of that wall opening onto a historic two-story cast-iron porch, while one-over-one windows had replaced the original six-over-six sash. The opposite side looks onto the interior garden court, with a brick chimney rising between its windows, and a chain-link fence encloses the large side yard.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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