Monroe Court Apartments

43-05 47th Street | also 47-02 43rd Avenue | Sunnyside | built 1927

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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. 1927

    Monroe Court's 47th Street building frames the entrance to a hidden garden court

    This building is the 47th Street face of Monroe Court, seven apartment buildings from 1927 arranged in a reversed C around an interior garden, with their main fronts turned inward and plainer walls toward the streets. The court's 47th Street entrance runs through this eight-bay building, whose front door sits in a round-headed opening with a partial brick voussoir, below what appear to be the remains of a historic iron light fixture. One building in the group sits entirely inside the block and cannot be seen from the street.

    “…with a court entrance at 47th Street (through 43-05 47th Street) and two others at 48th Street…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1927

    Monroe Court is built for renters after Sunnyside's co-op apartments prove hard to sell

    The City Housing Corporation had sold its first Sunnyside apartments as cooperatives, but its second co-op group at Carolin Gardens struggled to find buyers. Its later apartment buildings, Monroe Court among them, were plain rental units, which the landmarks report says were popular and profitable from the start. Hamilton, Monroe and Wilson Courts together hold about 21 percent of the homes in Sunnyside Gardens, in walk-ups of three to five stories.

    “The apartments at Hamilton Court, Monroe Court and Wilson Court, or approximately 21% of the total residences of Sunnyside Gardens are rental units.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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