39-40 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
No. 39-40 is built in 1925 as one of the paired center houses of its Hamilton Court row
Built in 1925, this house and 39-38 sit at the center of a 14-house Hamilton Court row on 47th Street, crowned by a shared corbelled brick panel and peaked parapet. When the city surveyed the district in 2007, the house still had its historic front door and six-over-six wood windows at the side porch, although the porch itself had been filled in with brick.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1966
Hamilton Court's owners agree to keep their shared gardens when the Sunnyside easements expire
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Deed easements that protected Sunnyside Gardens' common courtyards began to lapse on January 1, 1966, as the original mortgage lenders had required. Elsewhere owners fenced off pieces of the shared land, but Hamilton Court, the block this house is part of, was the only court whose residents agreed to renew the easements in the hope of keeping the courts free of fenced lots, careless gardening 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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