41-50 48th 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 City Housing Corporation builds this house in Colonial Court, the first block of Sunnyside Gardens
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Colonial Court, bounded by 43rd and Skillman Avenues and 47th and 48th Streets (then Gosman Avenue), was the first unit the City Housing Corporation put up at Sunnyside. Work started in early spring 1924 and was done by that fall. The block mixed six small apartment buildings with 40 two-family and eight one-family houses set around the edge, leaving private gardens and a big shared court in the middle. The houses sold quickly and the company moved to the next block.
“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
1924
The house closes the east end of a row of nine with a stepped brick parapet
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2007 survey describes 41-50 48th Street as one of two end houses of a nine-house Colonial Court row that wraps from 43rd Avenue onto the side streets. It is topped by a stepped brickwork parapet. Its two-bay side wall on 48th Street keeps paired six-over-six wood windows on both floors, with the entry in the southern bay and a brick chimney rising at the center.
“The end buildings, 41-49 47th Street and 41-50 48th Street, have stepped brickwork parapet walls.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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