Colonial Court

41-18 48th Street | Sunnyside | built 1924

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

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1924
A tenant-owned cooperative buys this building and its five neighbors for $205,200
Colonial Court's six small apartment buildings, holding 40 families, were run as cooperatives under the Sunnyside First Cooperative Housing Association, which paid the City Housing Corporation $205,200. Buyers got stock that entitled them to a 99-year lease on a flat. A second mortgage held by the company at 6 percent let lower-income families buy with a smaller down payment, at a time when New York's cooperatives were mostly costly private projects.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Landmark surveyors find the shared court behind the building fenced in, with a swing-set frame and benches
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Colonial Court's central garden first held landscaped gardens, children's play spaces and tennis courts, shared by the block. By the 2007 landmark designation much of the common ground had been annexed into fenced private yards. The largest remaining piece, between this building and 41-38, was enclosed by chain-link and held a swing-set frame and a few wooden benches.
“…faces 47th Street between the apartment buildings at 41-18 and 41-38, is also surrounded by a chain-link fence and features the metal frame of a swing set…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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