40-27 48th Street

Sunnyside | built 1926

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
The City Housing Corporation builds this house as part of Jefferson Court, a mews of 48 row houses
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This row house belongs to Jefferson Court, the 48 houses filling the middle of the block between 48th and 49th Streets, 39th Avenue and Skillman Avenue. Instead of lining the street, the houses run at right angles to it in three U-shaped rows, each wrapped around a garden court. Their front doors open onto those gardens, though they carry 48th Street numbers.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
September 15
Easements for this block bind owners to Sunnyside's shared-garden rules for forty years
Buyers at Sunnyside Gardens signed covenants when they bought their lots, controlling the houses, landscaping and common spaces the planners had laid out. The declaration of easements for tax block 133, which holds Jefferson Court, is dated September 15, 1926. Because the mortgage banks insisted, most of these easements were set to run forty years, generally until 1966, though a few, such as protection of light and air, were perpetual.
“Block 133 (dated September 15, 1926)... most easements were not made permanent but were intended to last for forty years (generally until 1966)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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