39-88 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
39-88 48th Street, its row's southern end house, has a cut-out gable terrace at the rear
The rear of 39-88 mirrors that of its neighbor 39-84, except that its second floor has a full-size six-over-six window at the center rather than a smaller one. In both houses the third-floor gable is cut away to make an open terrace behind a metal railing. Its three-bay south side faces the through-block path, with a brick chimney rising just west of the gable peak.
“The third-floor gable of these end buildings is cutout to create an open terrace with a metal railing at that floor.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
The 2007 survey records a flagpole and a brick-enclosed porch at 39-88 48th Street
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Catalogued in 2007 as type F on block 148, lot 80, the house had a front porch enclosed in non-historic brick with a door and a fixed multi-pane window, a metal awning over the door and a railing around the upper terrace. A flagpole stood in the front yard. At the back the facade had been cleaned and repointed, a chain-link fence closed the rear yard, and half the side yard sat raised on a concrete-block wall as a driveway.
“…metal rail at 2nd fl terrace; flue cap at chimney; flagpole in yd…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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