39-09 46th Street

Sunnyside | built 1925

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1925

    Spring

    39-09 46th Street rises with Hamilton Court, begun after the City Housing Corporation finishes Colonial Court

    After completing Colonial Court, its first block at Sunnyside, the City Housing Corporation began Hamilton Court in spring 1925, and 39-09 46th Street is one of its row houses. The court held single-family and three-family homes for 225 families and was finished by late summer. According to the landmarks report the houses sold well, and early in 1926 the company was ready to start 300 more homes.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1966

    Owners in Hamilton Court, home to 39-09 46th Street, alone choose to renew their shared-garden easements

    Sunnyside's garden easements were drafted, as the mortgage banks had demanded, to begin expiring on January 1, 1966. Across the development many owners fenced off sections of the common greens, built decks onto the backs of houses or added driveway curb cuts. Hamilton Court, which includes 39-09, stood apart: it was the single court whose owners consented to prolong the easements and keep the interior gardens shared.

    “Residents of Hamilton Court were the only ones who agreed to extend the easements.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 2007

    The landmarks survey records a porthole window and a second-floor brick addition at 39-09 46th Street

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    The 2007 district report describes 39-09 as a type A' row house on block 149, lot 137. Its porch had been filled in with non-historic vertical wood boards, with a porthole window, a door and an air conditioner on the side. At the rear, paired sliding doors had replaced a first-floor window in an enlarged opening, and a one-story brick addition and terrace had been added at the second floor.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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