39-25 46th Street

Sunnyside | built 1925

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1925
No. 39-25 keeps a brick porch on its path front and a cast-iron porch on its street side
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No. 39-25 46th Street, the northernmost house in a fourteen-house Hamilton Court row, faces the through-block path and keeps its historic brick enclosed porch and original door. Its west side, facing 46th Street, is fronted by a two-story cast-iron porch reached by a door on each floor; the porch runs over to the wall of the next house. The porch keeps its historic wood and glass infill, and a broad lawn spreads in front of this side.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1966
Hamilton Court's owners alone agree to keep their shared gardens as the easements lapse
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The easements that kept Sunnyside Gardens' interior courts as common land were written to start expiring on January 1, 1966, a condition set by the lenders behind the original mortgages. A 1956 effort to get owners to extend them voluntarily failed, and elsewhere common lawns were fenced off and driveways cut. Hamilton Court, the block that includes No. 39-25, was the only court whose residents agreed to an extension, wanting to avoid sheds and 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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