39-02 47th Street
also 46-20 39th Avenue | Sunnyside | built 1925
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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.
- 1925
The City Housing Corporation starts Hamilton Court, its second Sunnyside Gardens block
After finishing Colonial Court in 1924, the City Housing Corporation began its second unit at Sunnyside Gardens, Hamilton Court, in the spring of 1925. Its single-family and three-family houses held 225 families. The block was finished by the end of that summer and sold well, and by early 1926 the company was ready to start 300 more homes.
- 1966
Hamilton Court's owners alone agree to keep their shared gardens as Sunnyside's easements run out
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The easements that kept Sunnyside Gardens' interior lawns common were written to start lapsing on January 1, 1966. Elsewhere in the development, many owners fenced off pieces of the shared land, built decks and porches at the rear and cut driveways. The residents of Hamilton Court were the only group to agree to extend the easements, aiming to keep their courts from turning into fenced plots and sheds.
“Residents of Hamilton Court were the only ones who agreed to extend the easements.”
- 2007
The landmarks survey finds 39-02 47th Street's brick rear porch and garden wall intact
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The 2007 Sunnyside Gardens survey found that No. 39-02, the gabled house at the 39th Avenue end of its Hamilton Court row, still had its two-story brick and wood rear porch, open with an arched opening on the ground floor and brick openwork above. A brick wall with piers and curved ends runs from the house along 39th Avenue, forming the northern edge of the interior garden court, with metal gates to the interior paths.
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