39-64 47th Street

also 39-64A 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
The City Housing Corporation builds Hamilton Court, this house's block, in a single season
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After finishing Colonial Court in 1924, the City Housing Corporation started Hamilton Court, its second unit at Sunnyside Gardens, in the spring of 1925. The court of one-family and three-family houses held 225 families, was ready by the end of that summer and sold well. By May 1, 1926, the company had built homes for roughly 600 families, and it declared the development finished in the fall of 1928.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
A photo from about 1940 shows the porch door that once led to a service passage through the house
39-64 is a four-bay Type Y row house, shown in the district report in a photograph taken around 1940. The design puts a slate-roofed, clapboard enclosed porch at one end, shared with the entrance of the adjoining house. The porch has two doors: one gives another way into the building, and the other opens onto a passage through the building, meant for deliveries to the back. Many such passages were later absorbed into the houses and their doors filled in.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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