39-51 46th Street

also 39-51A 46th Street, 39-51 1/2 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
The end house of its row turns sideways, with a two-story cast-iron porch facing 46th Street
No. 39-51 closes the end of a 14-house Hamilton Court row and is set crosswise to it, so its three-bay side faces 46th Street. Doors on each floor of the middle bay open onto the historic two-story cast-iron porch, which spans two bays, and a broad lawn edged by low masonry curbs serves as its side yard.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1966
January 1
As Sunnyside's easements expire, Hamilton Court is the only court to extend them
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The forty-year easements that kept Sunnyside Gardens' courts open began to lapse on January 1, 1966, and in some places owners fenced off common land, added decks or porches and cut curbs for driveways. Hamilton Court, where this house stands, was the only court whose residents agreed to extend them, hoping to keep the courts from becoming "a jungle of 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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