39-12 47th 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

    The City Housing Corporation builds Hamilton Court, Sunnyside's second unit, as homes for 225 families

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    This house is part of Hamilton Court, the second block the City Housing Corporation developed at Sunnyside Gardens after Colonial Court. Work began in the spring of 1925, and the court's single-family and three-family houses, built for 225 families, were ready by the end of that summer. The houses sold well, and at the start of 1926 the company was ready to begin another 300 homes.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1925

    39-12 47th Street is built in 1925 as a type A' row house in Hamilton Court

    No. 39-12 is a type A' row house of 1925 in Hamilton Court, on the west side of 47th Street. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed it, the entry porch had been filled in with modern brick around a new door, a fixed window, a light and a mailbox, and the windows were one-over-one vinyl. A brick and stone wall holds up a raised planting bed in the front yard, and at the back a small six-over-six window had been bricked over.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1966

    Sunnyside's garden easements begin to lapse, and only Hamilton Court's residents agree to extend theirs

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    Sunnyside's deed easements, which kept the court gardens in common, were written to start expiring on January 1, 1966, as the original mortgage lenders had insisted. As they lapsed, owners in some courts fenced off common land, added rear decks and porches, and cut driveways. Residents of Hamilton Court, this row's court, were the only ones who agreed to extend their easements, hoping to keep it from becoming "a jungle of fenced plots."

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

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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