Carolin Gardens
43-17 47th Street | Sunnyside | built 1927
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1928
Renewed push to sell Carolin Gardens co-ops finds buyers for only half the units
With many Carolin Gardens apartments still unsold, the cooperative began renting them with an option to buy so they would earn some income. A further sales drive starting in August 1928 still sold only half of them, even as the development's houses sold fast. Clarence Stein later judged that the co-op arrangement had not worked well, and the City Housing Corporation built its later Sunnyside apartments as rentals.
“A further intense effort to sell the cooperative apartments, begun in August, 1928, resulted in only half of them being sold…”
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