39-69 47th Street

also 39-69A 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
39-69 ends its 1927 Roosevelt Court row as a flat-roofed house turned to face the path
The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates this row of ten houses on 47th Street to 1927, part of Sunnyside Gardens' Roosevelt Court. Its two end houses, 39-51 and 39-69, have flat roofs, sit even farther back than the rest, and are turned at right angles to the row so their fronts look onto the through-block paths. The flat-roofed pair are trimmed with geometric soldier, stretcher and header brick courses and stepped piers at the parapet.
“The flat roof, first and last buildings, 38-51 and 39-69 47th Street, are farther recessed and set perpendicular to the row, facing the through-block path…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
39-69 keeps its two-story cast-iron porch as a driveway and basketball hoop fill its yards
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The Commission's 2007 designation report found the historic two-story cast-iron porch still standing on the house's 47th Street side, where the first-floor patio had been extended behind a metal railing. Concrete paving and a metal gate turned most of that side yard into a driveway. The parapet had been rebuilt, with two roof drains run through its decorative brickwork, the bay windows were clad in aluminum, and a basketball hoop stood in the yard toward the interior garden court.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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