41-13 47th Street

Sunnyside | built 1924

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1924
Colonial Court opens with play spaces and tennis courts in its shared garden
The first buildings put up at Colonial Court, the Sunnyside Gardens block this house belongs to, were arranged around an interior garden court. According to the landmarks report, that court was fitted with structured play areas: ornamental gardens, a play space for infants under a pergola, an area for young children and tennis courts. Courts built later in the development were landscaped differently, partly to avoid the noise of such organized recreation.
“…including “decorative gardens, infants’ play space with pergola, young children’s recreation space, and tennis courts.”…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Landmarks report singles out the house's original twelve-light door and wood windows
Of the four flat-roofed row houses built in 1924 in this 47th Street row, 41-13 is the one the 2007 landmarks report singles out for keeping its original wood-and-glass front door with twelve lights and its six-over-six wood windows. At the back, which can be seen from 48th Street, its center bay originally held smaller four-over-four windows, a feature it shared with its neighbor at 41-15.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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