39-07 46th Street
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 builds 39-07 46th Street as part of Hamilton Court, its second Sunnyside block
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This row house belongs to Hamilton Court, the second unit the City Housing Corporation developed at Sunnyside Gardens. Work on the court started in the spring of 1925, and by the end of that summer its one- and three-family houses were ready for 225 families. The landmarks report says the houses sold well, and by May 1, 1926 the company had put up homes for roughly 600 families.
- 1966
Hamilton Court residents, including the owners around 39-07 46th Street, agree to extend their garden easements
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The easements that kept Sunnyside's interior gardens open were written to start lapsing on January 1, 1966. In many courts owners then fenced off parts of the common land, added rear decks or cut curbs for driveways. Hamilton Court, where this house stands, was the only court whose residents agreed to extend the easements, wanting to avoid what an account called "a jungle of fenced plots."
“Residents of Hamilton Court were the only ones who agreed to extend the easements.”
- 2007
The landmarks survey finds a cleaned facade and a vinyl-sided porch at 39-07 46th Street
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The Sunnyside Gardens designation report lists 39-07 as a type A row house on tax block 149, lot 38. By then its facade had been cleaned, its windows replaced by one-over-one vinyl sash with six-over-six snap-in muntins, and its front porch covered in non-historic vinyl siding beneath a green roof. At the back the survey noted repointed brick, a non-historic door with a light and candle holders at the first floor, and a wood picket fence in the yard.
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