39-32 47th 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
39-32 47th Street begins the recessed, flat-roofed center of its Hamilton Court row
In the 14-house row on the west side of 47th Street, the eight flat-roofed houses from 39-32 to 39-46 are set back from the line of their neighbors. The row's flat-roofed houses were finished with bluestone coping and geometric bands of soldier, stretcher, header and projecting brick.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1966
Hamilton Court's owners alone agree to keep the shared-garden easements as they begin to expire
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Sunnyside's deed easements, which kept the inner courts open as common gardens, were written to start lapsing on January 1, 1966. Elsewhere owners fenced off parts of the commons, added rear decks and porches, and cut driveways. Hamilton Court, the block this house belongs to, was the only court whose residents agreed to extend the easements, hoping to keep their court from turning into a jungle of fenced plots and sheds.
“Residents of Hamilton Court were the only ones who agreed to extend the easements.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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