40-15 48th Street
also 39-66 49th Street | Sunnyside | built 1926
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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.
- 1926
Block 133's deed covenants bar garages and fences and keep its central garden open
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The Declaration of Easements and Restrictions for Block 133, where Jefferson Court stands, is dated September 15, 1926. Sunnyside buyers signed such covenants, which kept each block's central gardens open for all residents, banned garages, fences, hedges and clotheslines, and allowed no change to porches or exterior paint colors without the written consent of the trustees. At the banks' insistence most of the rules ran for forty years, generally until 1966.
“…copies of the easements for Blocks 154 and 155 (dated December 31, 1925), Block 133 (dated September 15, 1926)…”
- 2007
The Landmarks Commission uses 40-15 48th Street to illustrate its type K row house
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In its 2007 report on Sunnyside Gardens, the Landmarks Preservation Commission illustrated its type K row house with this 1926 home, pairing a current photograph with one taken around 1940. Type K is a three-bay house with its door at the left, next to paired windows, a tripartite window or a bracketed projecting bay under a hipped metal roof, and then a single six-over-six window. Upstairs are three six-over-six windows.
“Type K, K' - Three-bay row house. The first floor features the building entry on left ... 40-15 48th Street c. 1940…”
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