Carolin Gardens
43-31 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
A renewed sales drive leaves half of the Carolin Gardens cooperative apartments unsold
Slow sales at Carolin Gardens left the City Housing Corporation paying for empty units, so the cooperative association began renting them out with an option to buy. A fresh push to sell the apartments, launched in August 1928, still moved only half of them, even as the development's individual houses sold quickly. The developers concluded that cooperatives for low-income owners brought too many problems, and later Sunnyside apartments were simple 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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