48-08 39th Avenue

Sunnyside | built 1927

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

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1927
48-08 39th Avenue goes up as a three-bay Type J' house in Harrison Place
This 1927 row house on the south side of 39th Avenue, between 48th and 49th Streets, belongs to Sunnyside Gardens' Harrison Place and is classed by the Landmarks Preservation Commission as Type J'. When the district was surveyed in 2007, the front had been repointed and fitted with a new door, but the original door surround and hood were still there. At the back, a later wood addition with three casement windows had been attached to the first floor.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
May
Historian Herbert Reynolds explains why 48-08's row left Jefferson Court for Harrison Place
The northern part of tax block 133, where this row facing 39th Avenue stands, was first built as part of Jefferson Court and is now counted in Harrison Place. In a May 2007 interview cited in the Landmarks Preservation Commission's report, Sunnyside historian Herbert Reynolds said these conventional street-facing rows were split off from the court's mews-style rows because the mews layout cost more, with its paving, sewer and electrical lines to keep up.
“The northern portion of tax block 133 (now part of Harrison Place) was originally constructed as part of Jefferson Court.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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