39-78 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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2007
May
Hamilton Court Association president Jack Freeman explains how the court kept its common gardens
In a May 2007 interview cited in the Landmarks Preservation Commission's designation report, Jack Freeman, president of the Hamilton Court Association, said that when the easements protecting the interior garden courts ran out in the 1960s, Hamilton Court's residents voted to extend them permanently. As a result, all three of the court's row-house gardens, including the one behind this house, were still intact in 2007, edged with loose stone or brick curbing or old privet hedges.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
By 2007 the back of 39-78 has an open two-story metal porch with a spiral stair
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2007 survey of Hamilton Court found 39-78 47th Street with aluminum one-over-one windows, sliding basement windows and an aluminum-clad door surround and hood at the front. The rear had changed more: a red metal awning over the first floor, a two-story open metal porch climbed by a metal spiral stair, and aluminum siding and a metal railing on the third-floor terrace.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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