39-52 48th Street

Sunnyside | built 1925

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1925
39-52 48th Street anchors one end of a ten-house Roosevelt Court row from 1925
The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates this row of ten Sunnyside Gardens houses, between 39-52 and 39-70 48th Street, to 1925. No. 39-52 and the house at the opposite end are flat-roofed and set back even farther than the recessed middle houses, turned at a right angle to the row so their fronts look onto the through-block paths. No. 39-52 is classed as type X', the reverse of the X house at the far end.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
39-52 48th Street faces the street with a two-story cast-iron porch and a wide lawn
The side of No. 39-52 that faces 48th Street is three bays wide, with doors on both floors in the middle bay leading onto a historic two-story cast-iron porch. In the 2007 survey, one-over-one windows had taken the place of the six-over-six sash, and a large grassy side yard spread beside the house. The front, on the through-block path, had two mailboxes near the door and bluestone coping along the parapet.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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