39-53 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
39-53 48th Street joins Jefferson Court's 1927 garden-facing row
Third in a row of seven Sunnyside Gardens houses completed in 1927, No. 39-53 faces north onto a small front lawn and the garden path inside Jefferson Court. It is classed as type B', while No. 39-51 next door is type B. The rear walls of the row face a service driveway that crosses the block and can be seen from 48th and 49th Streets.
“There are small grassy front yards between the house and the interior garden path.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
39-53 48th Street's door hood is painted red, with a wood deck out back
By 2007, No. 39-53 had aluminum one-over-one windows and a replacement door with a storm door, but it kept its historic door surround, whose hood roof had been painted red. Its front steps combine brick and red-painted concrete. At the back, an enlarged opening led out to a wood deck with stairs, with lattice beneath it.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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