39-24 47th 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
City Housing Corporation builds Hamilton Court, its second Sunnyside block, in one season
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Hamilton Court was the City Housing Corporation's second unit at Sunnyside Gardens, started in spring 1925. Its three-family and one-family houses, with room for 225 families, were done by the end of that summer and sold well. By the start of 1926 the company was ready to begin 300 more homes.
- 1966
Hamilton Court owners agree to keep their shared gardens as Sunnyside's easements expire
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Sunnyside's deed easements, which kept the block interiors open as common gardens, started to lapse on January 1, 1966. Across the development, owners began fencing off parts of the common land, adding decks and cutting curbs for driveways. Hamilton Court alone among the courts had its residents agree to renew the restrictions, hoping to keep their courts from turning into fenced plots and sheds.
“Residents of Hamilton Court were the only ones who agreed to extend the easements.”
- 2007
39-24 47th Street keeps its original two-story cast-iron porch facing the street
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The last house of its row, 39-24 is turned sideways to face the through-block path, so its three-bay side wall fronts 47th Street. In 2007 it still had the historic cast-iron porch with wood and glass infill, a historic door onto the second-floor terrace between six-over-six windows, and a large grassy side yard. It was one of only two houses in the row that kept their original enclosed porch, windows and door.
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