39-67 48th Street
Sunnyside | built 1927
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1926
Deed easements governing the block of 39-67 48th Street are dated September 15, 1926
39-67 stands on tax block 133, whose declaration of easements is dated September 15, 1926; it is one of only a few Sunnyside Gardens easement documents the Landmarks Preservation Commission could find. Buyers signed these covenants when they bought their lots. Because the mortgage banks insisted, most of the restrictions were limited to forty years, generally ending in 1966, while a few, such as keeping light and air from being blocked, were meant to last forever.
“…we have copies of the easements for Blocks 154 and 155 (dated December 31, 1925), Block 133 (dated September 15, 1926)…”
- 1927
39-67 48th Street is built in 1927 as the lone flat-roofed house in a Jefferson Court row
Dated 1927, 39-67 is the first of seven row houses forming the northern arm of a U-shaped group around a central garden in Jefferson Court. It is the only one of the seven with a flat roof, capped with bluestone coping; the other six have slate-shingled gables. Its six-bay rear faces a service driveway running through the block, and its rear brick porch was originally open.
“The first building has a flat roof, while the other six buildings have slate shingled, eaves front gable roofs.”
- 2007
Jefferson Court's central mews, still intact in 2007, has a path running north to 39-67
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The houses of Jefferson Court face raised garden courts rather than the street, set behind a brick retaining wall and reached by brick steps. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described them in 2007, all three central gardens were intact. In the center court, a single path climbs from 48th Street and meets a cross path that runs north to 39-67 and south to 39-99, then forks into an oval that serves the other houses.
“…meets a perpendicular path that runs north to 39-67 48th Street and south to 39-99 48th Street…”
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