39-51 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
39-51 48th Street is a flat-roofed 1927 row house in Jefferson Court
No. 39-51 is the second in a 1927 row of seven houses in Jefferson Court that make up the southern arm of a U around a central garden. It is classed as type B and shares the row's brick details: soldier courses above the foundation and the upper windows, projecting brick corner pilasters and decorated parapets topped with cast-stone coping.
“Cast-stone coping is found at the parapets of the flat roof buildings.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
39-51 48th Street still has its historic door surround
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The 2007 landmark survey found No. 39-51 with its historic door surround intact, though the door itself and the aluminum windows were replacements. A mailbox hung near the entry and an antenna stood on the roof. At the back, the basement had sliding and awning windows, and a white-painted concrete block wall edged the yard.
“…historic door surround; mailbox near door; antenna at roof; REAR - pipe rail, painted foundation, sliding & awning windows at basement…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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