39-13 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.
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- 1925
39-13 46th Street goes up as part of Hamilton Court, the City Housing Corporation's 1925 block
This house is part of Hamilton Court, which the City Housing Corporation began in the spring of 1925 as the second unit of Sunnyside Gardens, following Colonial Court. Finished by late summer, the court provided one- and three-family houses for 225 families, and they sold well. At the start of 1926 the company was ready to build 300 more homes on the neighboring blocks.
- 1966
Residents of Hamilton Court, where 39-13 46th Street stands, become the only court to extend Sunnyside's easements
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Under terms the mortgage banks had insisted on, the easements that held Sunnyside's interior gardens in common were written to start running out on January 1, 1966. Elsewhere, owners began fencing common land for private yards and adding porches or decks to the backs of houses. Hamilton Court, which includes 39-13, was the lone exception: its residents consented to prolong the easements.
“Residents of Hamilton Court were the only ones who agreed to extend the easements.”
- 2007
39-13 46th Street keeps its historic door and multi-light porch casements, the landmarks survey notes
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The 2007 designation report lists 39-13 as a type A' row house on block 149, lot 136. It kept its historic front door and the historic wood infill of its enclosed porch, with a transom over the porch door and multi-light casements on the front and side. Its windows had become one-over-one vinyl with snap-in muntins, and the porch roof and foundation were painted green.
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