47-01 43rd Avenue

also 41-51 47th 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
Spring
City Housing Corporation builds Colonial Court, Sunnyside Gardens' first block, including this corner house
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Colonial Court, on the block between 43rd Avenue (then Foster Avenue), Skillman Avenue, 47th Street and 48th Street, was the City Housing Corporation's first unit at Sunnyside. Work started in early spring 1924 and was done by fall: six cooperative apartment buildings plus 48 houses (40 for two families, eight for one) ringing a shared central court. The houses were meant for individual owners and the apartments were run as cooperatives; the buildings sold quickly, and the company moved on to its next block.
“Begun in early spring of 1924, it was finished by the fall.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1924
Gable-front end house anchors the west end of Colonial Court's 43rd Avenue row
This house is the western of the seven houses that face 43rd Avenue in a row of nine. The two end houses carry slate-shingled, pitched roofs with their gables facing the avenue, while the five flat-roofed center houses step back from the street. Its four-bay side wall faces 47th Street, where one-over-one sash have replaced the original six-over-six and smaller four-over-four windows; the entry sits in the northernmost bay.
“The end buildings, facing 43rd Avenue, have slate shingled, gable front, pitched roofs…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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