39-11 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 completes 39-11 46th Street in Hamilton Court by the end of summer 1925
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39-11 46th Street is one of the row houses of Hamilton Court, the second block of Sunnyside Gardens built by the City Housing Corporation. Construction began in the spring of 1925 and the court, with houses for one or three families, was ready by summer's end, accommodating 225 families in all. The report notes the houses sold well; by May 1, 1926 the company had housed about 600 families.
- 1966
Hamilton Court's residents, among them those at 39-11 46th Street, vote to keep the gardens behind their houses shared
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The easements protecting Sunnyside's common gardens were set to begin expiring on January 1, 1966, and in most courts owners afterward carved the greens into private yards, added decks or created curb cuts for driveways. Hamilton Court, the court that includes 39-11, was the only one where residents agreed to extend the easements, aiming to keep its courts from becoming "a jungle of fenced plots."
“Residents of Hamilton Court were the only ones who agreed to extend the easements.”
- 2007
39-11 46th Street keeps its historic wood porch infill, the landmarks survey finds
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In the 2007 Sunnyside Gardens report, 39-11 appears as a type A row house on block 149, lot 37, with six-over-six wood windows behind storm sash. Its enclosed porch still had historic wood infill with a door and transom at the front, though the casements at the front and side were wood replacements. The survey also noted a terrazzo stoop with a metal railing, a porch roof painted black and a cleaned facade.
“…historic wood porch infill - door & transom at front, replacement wood casements at front & side; porch roof is painted black…”
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