39-79 47th 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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- 1927
A row of six Roosevelt Court houses goes up on 47th Street
This house belongs to a row of six Roosevelt Court houses at 39-73 to 39-87 47th Street, dated 1927 in the Sunnyside Gardens designation report. The row mixes two-story flat-roofed houses with gable-roofed houses that have an attic story, in four designs plus two mirror images. The four flat-roofed houses at the north end, this one among them, are set back from the sidewalk and trimmed with patterned brickwork, bay windows and openwork brick parapets.
- 2007
Only 39-79 in its row keeps its original front door, door surround and hood
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When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed the row in 2007, 39-79 47th Street was the one house still keeping its historic door, surround and hood, which by then had a green-painted roof. Other parts of the house had changed: its porch had been filled in with brick and joined by a brick addition with sliding windows and glass block, and its parapet had been rebuilt with cast-stone coping.
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