41-50 47th Street

Sunnyside | built 1924

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1924

    spring

    City Housing Corporation begins Sunnyside Gardens with Colonial Court, the court this row house belongs to

    This house is part of Colonial Court, the first section the City Housing Corporation built at Sunnyside Gardens. Work on the court started early in the spring of 1924 and wrapped up that fall. It combined six apartment buildings in three pairs, organized as cooperatives, with 40 two-family and eight one-family houses meant to be bought by individual owners. The homes sold quickly, and the company moved straight on to its next block.

    “Begun in early spring of 1924, it was finished by the fall.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1924

    Slate-roofed house forms part of a seven-house Colonial Court row on 47th Street

    41-50 stands in a row of seven two-story houses, 41-36 to 41-52 47th Street, that the Landmarks Preservation Commission dates to 1924 and assigns to Colonial Court. The five middle houses, this one among them, carry pitched roofs of slate shingles with a brick chimney rising at each peak, while the two end houses have flat roofs behind parapets. Bands of brick soldier courses mark the sill line of the first floor and the tops of the second-floor windows.

    “The center five buildings have slate shingled, eaves front, pitched roofs with brick chimneys extending above the peak at every building.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 2023

    May 4

    Architect presents a plan to add skylights to the slate roof of 41-50 47th Street

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    Laura Heim Architect, a firm at 45-14 Skillman Avenue, prepared a landmarks hearing presentation dated May 4, 2023 for new skylights on the rear of this house's roof in the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District. The drawings call for lifting slate shingles only where the flashing requires it and saving them to be put back. Sight-line studies from 43rd Avenue argue that the roof's pitch will hide the skylights, and the set includes 1940s tax photos of the house.

    Source: nyc.gov

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