39-61 47th 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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2007
Most of the shared garden behind Roosevelt Court's houses has become private yards by designation
39-61 is one of the 74 row houses of Roosevelt Court, set in eight rows around the block between 39th Avenue, 48th Street, Skillman Avenue and 47th Street; the Commodore Apartments at the south end are not part of the court. Its four interior gardens were laid out between paired rows, but by the 2007 designation much of that common land had been fenced into individual yards and its paths removed. Only the northernmost garden survives whole, and the two at the south end are gone.
“…much of the other central court garden space has been annexed into private yards, surrounded by individual fences…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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