41-31 47th Street

Sunnyside | built 1924

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1. 1924

   41-31 47th Street goes up as one of Sunnyside Gardens' first cooperative apartment houses

   41-31 47th Street is one of the six apartment houses of Colonial Court, the City Housing Corporation's first block at Sunnyside Gardens, which was begun in early spring 1924 and finished by that fall. Besides 40 two-family and eight one-family houses, the court held six apartment buildings for six or seven families each, set in three pairs. The apartments were organized as cooperatives while the houses were meant for individual owners, and the report says the buildings sold quickly, letting the company move on to its next block.

   “This first unit built at Sunnyside had six, six- and seven-family apartment buildings, grouped together in three sets of two buildings…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 2007

   41-31 47th Street is described as the mirror image of its paired neighbor, 41-23

   The 2007 designation report describes 41-31 47th Street as a three-story apartment house five bays wide, joined to 41-23 47th Street to the north and designed as its mirror image. A slightly recessed central tower holds the main entrance and rises to a low pediment-shaped gable above the otherwise flat roof, with soldier-bond brick courses over the basement and third-floor windows. By then its original windows and fifteen-pane wood door had been replaced, and the metal-clad entrance awning on carved wood brackets was gone.

   “…bordered to the north by 41-23 47th Street, of which it is a mirror image; main entrance in central tower…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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