39-66 47th Street

also 39-66A 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
39-66 is built in 1925 as one of four flat-roofed houses set back in Hamilton Court's row of nine
The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates this row of nine two-story houses on 47th Street to 1925, part of Sunnyside Gardens' Hamilton Court. 39-66 is among the four flat-roofed houses at the middle of the row, which stand back from the street behind two-level front lawns: grass at sidewalk height, then a raised bed held up by a stone retaining wall. Their parapets carry a toothed brick cornice, stepped brick piers, open brickwork and bluestone coping.
“The flat roof center buildings (fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh) are recessed from the streetwall…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
A gray wood panel fills the doorway of 39-66's through-building passage by 2007
A passage runs through the building at 39-66. The Commission's 2007 designation report found that the passage's door had been replaced by a gray wood panel, and that the enclosed porch, the single door surround and its hood were all clad in aluminum. A mailbox and a light were mounted near each door, two satellite dishes sat on the roof, and the front yard kept a low cobblestone wall and a stone-walled planting bed.
“…non-historic gray wood panel replaces thru-building passage door; mailbox & light near each door…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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