39-65 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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1927
39-65 goes up in 1927 as one of the set-back, gable-roofed houses in a Roosevelt Court row of ten
The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates this row of ten two-story houses facing 47th Street to 1927, part of Sunnyside Gardens' Roosevelt Court. The six middle houses, 39-55 through 39-65, stand back from the line of the street under slate-shingled gable roofs with their eaves toward the sidewalk, while the flat-roofed houses at either end are pulled back even farther. Soldier courses of brick run above the foundation and above the upstairs windows, and every house has a grassy front yard of its own.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Landmarks survey finds a picture window cut into 39-65's ground floor and its porch sided in vinyl
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The Commission's 2007 Sunnyside Gardens designation report recorded how this house had changed. On the first floor, a wide three-part window with a central picture pane had been set into an enlarged opening, next to an air conditioner built through the wall. The porch had been filled in with vinyl siding and one-over-one windows, the basement had gained a jalousie window and a grilled door, and the front yard had become a raised planting bed behind a concrete-block wall.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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