41-39 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
The City Housing Corporation builds the house as part of Colonial Court, the first block of Sunnyside Gardens
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This row house went up in 1924 as part of Colonial Court, the first block the City Housing Corporation developed at Sunnyside Gardens. The block lay between 43rd Avenue, then Foster Avenue, and Skillman Avenue, and between 47th Street, then Carolin Street, and 48th Street, then Gosman Avenue. It held six small apartment buildings plus eight single-family and 40 two-family houses. Work started in early spring and was done by fall.
“Their first block was Colonial Court, between 43rd (Foster) and Skillman Avenues, and 47th (Carolin) and 48th Streets (Gosman Ave.).”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Landmark surveyors find the house keeping its original enclosed wooden porch
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When Sunnyside Gardens was designated a historic district in 2007, the Landmarks Preservation Commission noted that 41-39 still had its historic enclosed wood porch, with its historic windows, and a historic transom over a newer front door. A historic window and door also survived at the basement, and wood lattice covered the foundation under the porch. The main windows had been replaced with vinyl one-over-one sash.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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