39-70 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
39-70 is built in 1925 as the first of the flat-roofed middle houses in a Hamilton Court row
The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates this row of nine houses on 47th Street to 1925, part of Sunnyside Gardens' Hamilton Court. 39-70 is the fourth house in the row and the first of four flat-roofed ones set back from the street, after three with slate gable roofs. The row's trim includes bay windows that project from the walls, wood pilasters framing the enclosed porticos, and paneled wood door surrounds with hoods on carved wooden brackets.
“The flat roof center buildings (fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh) are recessed from the streetwall…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
A new four-casement bay replaces 39-70's paired windows, the 2007 landmarks survey notes
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By the time of the Commission's 2007 designation report, a projecting bay with four casement windows had taken the place of the paired six-over-six windows on the first floor of 39-70. Both first-floor window openings had been shortened, and an air-conditioning panel and an alarm box were set into the wall. The enclosed porch was clad in aluminum, the parapet had been repointed, and wood fences lined both levels of the front yard.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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