Hamilton Court Apartments

39-77 46th Street | also 46-15 Skillman Avenue | Sunnyside | built 1927

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

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1927
Hamilton Court Apartments wrap a private garden in a U of brick walk-ups and shops
Completed in 1927 at the south end of Hamilton Court, the complex joins apartment houses into a U-shaped plan that nearly closes at its north end around a private garden. Shops line the Skillman Avenue front, where a passage through the building leads into the court, and that facade carries a Moorish-style pierced brick parapet and scattered clinker bricks. The plainer 46th and 47th Street walls turn their main faces to the garden.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1927
The City Housing Corporation rents out Hamilton Court's apartments after co-ops sell poorly
After cooperative apartments elsewhere in Sunnyside proved hard to sell, the City Housing Corporation built its later apartment houses, including those at Hamilton Court, as plain rental walk-ups, which proved popular and paid off as a business. The Hamilton, Monroe and Wilson Court apartments hold about 21 percent of the homes in Sunnyside Gardens, in three- to five-story buildings with fourteen stores among them.
“Later apartments built at Sunnyside were simple rental units and they were popular and immediately successful from a business point of view.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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