39-89 48th 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
39-89 48th Street faces Jefferson Court's raised central mews, reached by steps from the street
Jefferson Court's three garden courts sit above street level behind a brick retaining wall, entered by brick steps with stone or cast-stone treads and metal railings. In the center mews a single path climbs from 48th Street and meets a cross path running north to 39-67 and south to 39-99 48th Street, the row that includes 39-89, before branching west into an oval loop serving the remaining houses.
“A single path leads up brick steps from 48th Street in the center mews, meets a perpendicular path that runs north to 39-67 48th Street and south to 39-99…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
By 2007 39-89 48th Street has a greenhouse window at the rear and casements facing the court
Listed as type B on block 133, lot 61, the house kept its historic door surround and hood in 2007, but four casements had replaced the paired six-over-six windows on the first floor of its court front. At the back, enlarged openings held a door and a projecting greenhouse window opening onto a large wood deck with a trellis and stairs, and a dormer with an awning window sat on the tarred roof.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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