47-08 39th Avenue

Sunnyside | built 1927

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.

1927
47-08 39th Avenue is built in 1927 in Roosevelt Court, turned to face the avenue
Built in 1927 as part of Sunnyside Gardens' Roosevelt Court, 47-08 is one of a pair of row houses on this block that front on 39th Avenue. It is joined to the northeast corner of the row of houses facing 47th Street but turned to face the avenue, with 47-16, its mirror image, doing the same at the 48th Street end. The two-story house has a flat roof with a stepped parapet, brick corbels, faceted brick colonettes and a projecting bay window.
“…attached to the northeast (47-08) and northwest (47-16) corners of rows facing 47 th and 48th Streets…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
A photograph from about 1940 shows 47-08 39th Avenue, an example of its flat-roofed house type
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's Sunnyside Gardens report illustrates its four-bay Type M row house with a photograph of 47-08 39th Avenue taken around 1940. The type has an enclosed brick porch holding the entrance, reached by a brick stoop with curved cheek walls, and a second-floor bay window under a metal roof on decorative brackets. Always built with a flat roof, it carries geometric brick patterning, corbels and faceted colonettes at a stepped parapet; 47-08 is the mirror-image variant, M'.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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