47-03 39th Avenue

Sunnyside | built 1928

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1928
47-03 is one of three flat-roofed houses with patterned brick parapets in its Harrison Place row
Built in 1928 for Harrison Place, 47-03 is a Type B house in a row of ten that mixes flat roofs with slate-covered gables. It, 47-01 and 47-19 have flat roofs, sit slightly back from the others, and carry bluestone coping over parapets worked in scalloped, zigzag, soldier and header brick with stepped corbelled piers. Like the rest of the row it has a basement entrance under its stoop and a grassy front yard edged by a low curb.
“The first two and last, flat roof buildings, 47-01, 47-03 and 47-19 39th Avenue, are slightly recessed from the streetwall and have bluestone coping…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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