39-87 48th Street

Sunnyside | built 1927

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1927
39-87 48th Street is built in 1927 as the first of seven Jefferson Court houses facing a garden
Jefferson Court's row of seven, dated 1927, runs at right angles to 48th Street as one arm of a U-shaped group around a court garden. Number 39-87 begins a run of six slate-roofed houses with their eaves facing the court, alternating two mirror-image designs; the seventh, 39-99, has a flat roof. Brick soldier courses, projecting header sills and projecting window bays decorate the row.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
By 2007 39-87 48th Street has a brick rear porch, a deck and a dormer on its roof
The two-bay side of 39-87 faces 49th Street, where the 2007 survey noted air-conditioning units cut through the wall on the first, second and attic floors. On the garden front the house kept its historic door and door surround. At the back, the first floor had a large brick and bluestone deck with steps and a metal railing and a non-historic brick enclosed porch, and an asphalt-shingled dormer with sliding windows had been added to the roof.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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