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Roosevelt Court

Seventy-four row houses in eight rows originally framed four interior garden courts across most of the block.

Accessible proportional rendering of the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission existing-conditions plan of Roosevelt Court. Buildings, streets, paths, open space, fences, gates, and trees remain labeled as documented in the designation report.
LPC existing-conditions plan · not to scale and not a survey. Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report.
Buildings74 row houses
Row arrangement8 rows
Original gardens4
Block39th Ave · 48th St · Skillman Ave · 47th St

Plan and composition

How the Court Is Organized

Roosevelt Court follows the district's perimeter-row pattern, using different row lengths, setbacks, roof forms and heights to vary the street edge. Passages divide groups of roughly six to thirteen houses, and some end facades turn toward those routes.

The Commodore Apartments occupy the southern end of the block but are outside Roosevelt Court and outside the designated historic district.

Landscape and circulation

Gardens, Paths and Shared Space

Four paired building rows originally formed four interior garden courts. Three through-block paths connect the paired rows, and a service drive separates the southern houses from the Commodore Apartments.

The LPC report records substantial annexation of shared garden space into private yards by the time of designation. The northernmost garden remained intact, while smaller remnants survived elsewhere.

What makes it distinctive. Roosevelt Court makes the evolution of common space especially visible. Its plan still records four garden courts, even where later fences and private yards changed how portions of that shared landscape function.