41-49 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 house is built at the 47th Street end of a nine-house row on 43rd Avenue
Built in 1924, 41-49 is one end of a row of nine Colonial Court houses whose middle houses face 43rd Avenue. It faces the footpath through the block rather than the avenue, and it has a stepped brick parapet. Its two-bay side wall faces 47th Street and has paired six-over-six wood windows and a chimney. At the back it shares a party wall with 47-01 43rd Avenue.
“The end buildings, 41-49 47th Street and 41-50 48th Street, have stepped brickwork parapet walls.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1924
Colonial Court's houses are sold off quickly as the developer moves on to the next block
The City Housing Corporation meant the houses of Colonial Court, including 41-49, to be owned by the families who lived in them, while its apartment buildings were set up as cooperatives. The houses found buyers quickly, and the company moved on. Its second block, Hamilton Court, was started in the spring of 1925.
“The apartment buildings were organized as cooperatives and the houses were intended to be individually owned. They sold rapidly…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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