39-91 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
39-91 48th Street backs onto a service driveway running through the Jefferson Court block
The rear facades of the row from 39-87 to 39-99 48th Street face a through-block service driveway and can be seen from both 48th and 49th Streets. Each two-bay rear facade, including that of 39-91, was built with six-over-six windows on the first floor and a six-over-six beside a smaller four-over-four window on the second. The houses stand on concrete basements lit by three-pane awning windows, with entries set in pairs, and masonry walls enclose many of the rear yards.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
By 2007 39-91 48th Street has a skylight and a deck at the rear but keeps its door hood
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Catalogued as type B' on block 133, lot 161, the house had one-over-one vinyl windows with snap-in muntins imitating six-over-six panes when the district was surveyed in 2007, while its historic door surround, hood and storm door remained on the court side. At the rear, an enlarged opening held a door, another opening had been reduced for sliding windows, wood lattice filled the space under a deck, and a skylight and ice guards had been added to the roof.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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