39-04 47th Street

Sunnyside | built 1925

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

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1925
A Hamilton Court house is built as the mirror image of its corner neighbor
No. 39-04 sits near the north end of a twelve-house Hamilton Court row on the west side of 47th Street, beside the corner house at 39-02. The two houses mirror each other, down to their four-bay rear walls, and they are the only houses in the row without an entrance at basement level. North of 39-02, a brick wall along 39th Avenue closes off the row's interior garden court, with metal gates leading to its paths.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1966
Hamilton Court's owners alone agree to extend the easements protecting their gardens
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The deed easements that kept Sunnyside Gardens' courts open were written to begin expiring on January 1, 1966, as the banks and insurers holding the first mortgages had required. A 1956 effort by the United Trustees to get owners to renew them voluntarily had failed. Once they lapsed, parts of the common land elsewhere were fenced off as private yards, decks or porches were added at the back of some houses and curb cuts were made for driveways, but Hamilton Court residents agreed to keep the easements, hoping to avoid a patchwork of fenced plots and sheds.
“Residents of Hamilton Court were the only ones who agreed to extend the easements.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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