39-60 47th Street

Sunnyside | built 1925

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
39-60 is built in 1925 among four flat-roofed houses set back at the center of a Hamilton Court row
Completed in 1925 in Hamilton Court, 39-60 is one of four flat-roofed houses at the middle of a nine-house row on 47th Street, set back behind the line of their gabled neighbors. The flat-roofed group is finished with bluestone coping, a dentiled brick cornice, stepped piers and open brickwork along the parapet. Their front lawns climb in two levels, from a strip at the sidewalk to planting beds raised on stone walls.
“The flat roof center buildings (fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh) are recessed from the streetwall…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
A photograph from about 1940 shows the house's entry sharing an enclosed wooden portico with its neighbor
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report on Sunnyside Gardens uses a photo of 39-60 47th Street, taken around 1940, to illustrate its Type G row house: three bays, a door at one side and paired or bay windows in the center. The picture shows a feature found in some pairs of these houses, where the front door of the Type G house shared one enclosed wood portico with the entry of the house next door.
“…the entry of type G shares an enclosed wood portico with the adjacent building, as seen in the c.1940 photo below.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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