41-20 47th 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
The City Housing Corporation buys the Queens land where 41-20 47th Street will stand
In February 1924 the City Housing Corporation bought a large tract of undeveloped land in northeastern Queens next to the subway's Bliss Street station, the site of Sunnyside Gardens. The area took its name from Sunnyside, a farm of the Bragaw family, early settlers there. City officials had voted in 1923 and 1924 to exempt new housing from real estate taxes, an incentive behind large projects like this one.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
The landmark survey finds the side of 41-20 47th Street stuccoed and its bay removed
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No. 41-20 is the north end of a row of eight flat-roofed houses running to 41-34, where only the two end houses lack basement entries. By 2007 its two-bay north side had been covered with cream stucco, and its historic projecting bay replaced with three six-over-six windows and aluminum siding. In front, the paired first-floor windows had given way to a tripartite window, and the side yard was paved as a driveway.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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