Carolin Gardens

43-25 47th Street | Sunnyside | built 1927

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1925
Carolin Gardens opens as Sunnyside's second cooperative apartment venture
Carolin Gardens, built in 1925, was the City Housing Corporation's second cooperative venture at Sunnyside, organized as the Sunnyside Second Cooperative Housing Group. Tax abatements that had cut costs for the first co-ops had lapsed, and these units were somewhat larger, so prices ran higher. The first mortgage carried 5 1/2% interest, while the corporation itself held a 20-year second mortgage at 5%. Fewer than half the apartments sold in the first six months.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
43-25 is built as the mirror image of 43-13 in the Carolin Gardens row
No. 43-25 reverses the plan of No. 43-13, with six bays and a slightly recessed central tower under a side-facing gabled roof. The entrance is sheltered by an original wooden awning, roofed in metal and carried on big wooden brackets. Its original door had 15 rectangular glass panes, and its parapet was later rebuilt in a redder brick patterned with diamonds and dentils.
“Mirror image of building at 43-13; six bays wide ... historic wood awning with a metal-clad roof and large wood brackets over main entryway…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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