39-15 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

    The City Housing Corporation builds this house as part of Hamilton Court, its second Sunnyside block

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    This row house went up in Hamilton Court, the second section of Sunnyside Gardens put up by the City Housing Corporation. Work on the court started in the spring of 1925, and its mix of one-family and three-family houses held 225 families. According to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the houses were finished by the close of that summer and found buyers easily.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 2007

    Landmarks surveyors find this house still has its historic enclosed wood porch

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    In its 2007 designation report for Sunnyside Gardens, the Landmarks Preservation Commission recorded this Hamilton Court row house with six-over-six wood windows behind storm sash and a historic wood porch enclosure, which has a transomed door and multi-light casement windows on the front and side. The porch roof and foundation were painted green, and a flagpole was mounted at the porch.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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