39-62 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
39-62 48th Street goes up in 1925 as a set-back, flat-roofed house in Roosevelt Court's row of ten
This two-story brick house dates to 1925 and stands near the middle of a ten-house row in Roosevelt Court, one of the garden courts of Sunnyside Gardens. Like the other flat-roofed center houses, numbers 39-56 through 39-66, it sits back from the line of the street. Its front carries patterned soldier, stretcher and header brickwork, a toothed brick cornice, stepped piers and a projecting bay window, and its basement is entered under the porch or stoop.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
By 2007 most of the shared gardens of Roosevelt Court, the court that includes 39-62, have become private yards
39-62 belongs to Roosevelt Court, 74 row houses in eight rows on the block bounded by 39th Avenue, 48th Street, Skillman Avenue and 47th Street. The paired rows were laid out around four interior garden courts reached by three through-block paths. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described the court in 2007, only the northernmost garden was still intact with a path around it; owners had fenced much of the rest into individual yards and removed the paths, and the shared green space of the two southernmost gardens was gone.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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