47-07 43rd Avenue

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
Colonial Court's houses open onto a shared garden with play spaces and tennis courts
Like most of Colonial Court, this house has a small private yard and backs onto a central garden held in common by the block. The court first held planted gardens, play areas for children and tennis courts, though the City Housing Corporation's promotional plan left the courts out. By the time of the Landmarks Commission's survey the space was mostly open lawn, divided up and fenced, with chain-link around most houses' yards.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Enclosed porch and paved yard mark 47-07 43rd Avenue in the landmark survey
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The 2007 survey describes this type F row house with a repointed front and a later brick porch enclosure holding two windows, a door and a light on its south side and two more windows to the east. Above it, a second-floor terrace has a newer door, storm door and brick parapet. Most of the front yard had been paved in concrete or pavers, leaving two planting beds behind an iron fence.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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