41-23 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
41-23 47th Street opens as one of Sunnyside's first cooperative apartment houses
No. 41-23 is one of six small apartment buildings at Colonial Court that the City Housing Corporation sold as cooperatives, together housing 40 families. The Sunnyside First Cooperative Housing Association bought them from the company for $205,200, and buyers became tenant-owners holding stock that entitled them to a 99-year lease. A second mortgage from the company at 6 percent let people with lower incomes buy in.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
The 2007 survey describes 41-23 47th Street as a mirror-image twin of 41-31
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The three-story building at 41-23 is five bays wide with a slightly recessed central tower capped by a low gable, and it mirrors its southern neighbor, 41-31. By the 2007 designation its six-over-six wood windows had been replaced with aluminum sash, the entrance had a new metal-and-glass door, and the metal-clad awning on carved wood brackets over the main door had been removed. Non-historic lamps flanked the entrance.
“…bordered to the south by 41-31 47th Street, of which it is a mirror image…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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