39-54 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
A gable-fronted house goes up near the end of a Roosevelt Court row on 48th Street
Number 39-54, dated 1925, stands in a Roosevelt Court row of ten houses on 48th Street that mixes flat-roofed brick fronts with two-story-plus-attic houses under slate-shingled gables. It and 39-68 have roofs whose gables face the street, and they frame the recessed flat-roofed center group from 39-56 to 39-66. Each house in the row has its own small lawn edged by a low curb.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
The Landmarks Commission finds most of Roosevelt Court's shared gardens taken into private yards
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Roosevelt Court, which includes this house, was laid out as 74 row houses in eight rows around four interior garden courts, reached by three through-block paths. The commission's designation report found only the northernmost garden intact with its circling path. The others had largely been split into fenced private yards, the two southernmost had lost their common green entirely, and only two small pieces of the second garden from the north survived.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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