39-76 47th Street

also 39-74 47th Street | Sunnyside | built 1925

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 1925

    Spring

    The City Housing Corporation starts Hamilton Court, the second section of Sunnyside Gardens

    Hamilton Court, which includes this house on 47th Street (then called Carolin Street), was the second block the City Housing Corporation developed at Sunnyside Gardens, after Colonial Court. Work began in the spring of 1925, and by the end of that summer the court was finished, with single-family and three-family houses for 225 families. The houses sold well, and by early 1926 the company was ready to start 300 more homes.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1925

    The house at 39-74/76 shares a cross-gable roof with its neighbor and has a third-floor terrace at the back

    This building, which sits on a single tax lot (block 149, lot 74) under the double address 39-74/76, is one of a row of nine Hamilton Court houses on 47th Street, built in seven types plus two mirror images. Its slate-shingled roof joins 39-72 under a shared cross-gable, and at the rear the gable is cut away to make a third-floor terrace with a metal railing, a feature it shares with 39-72 and 39-78.

    “The gable roof of all three buildings is cut out to create a third-floor terrace with a metal railing.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1966

    Hamilton Court's owners alone agree to keep their shared gardens as the Sunnyside easements expire

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    The easements that kept Sunnyside Gardens' interior courts as common land were set to start expiring on January 1, 1966. Across the development, owners began fencing off shared lawns for private yards, adding decks and porches, and cutting driveways. Hamilton Court, where this house stands, was the only court whose residents agreed to extend the easements, hoping to keep their court from turning into what one account called a jungle of fenced plots and sheds.

    “Residents of Hamilton Court were the only ones who agreed to extend the easements.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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