39-17 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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- 1966
Sunnyside's garden easements begin to lapse, and only Hamilton Court's residents agree to extend theirs
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The legal easements that kept Sunnyside's interior courts as common gardens were written to start lapsing on January 1, 1966, as the original mortgage lenders had required. As they ran out, parts of the shared land were fenced off for private yards in some places, and some owners added rear decks and driveways. The commission reports that Hamilton Court, where this house stands, was the only court whose residents agreed to extend the easements, hoping to keep their garden from turning into a patchwork of fenced plots.
“Residents of Hamilton Court were the only ones who agreed to extend the easements.”
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