39-70 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
39-70 48th Street is turned sideways at the end of its 1925 Roosevelt Court row to face a garden path
The flat-roofed house at 39-70 closes one end of a ten-house Roosevelt Court row dated 1925, matching 39-52 at the other end. Both end houses are set even farther back than the row's center houses and are rotated perpendicular to it, so their fronts face the through-block path. Its two-bay side wall looks onto the interior garden court; there, one-over-one windows have replaced the historic six-over-six wood sash, and three-pane awning windows sit at the basement.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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