47-15 43rd Avenue

Sunnyside | built 1924

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1924

   The City Housing Corporation builds this house in Colonial Court, Sunnyside Gardens' first block

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   Building at Sunnyside started in April, two months after the City Housing Corporation bought the land, and its first block was Colonial Court, bounded by 43rd Avenue (then Foster Avenue), Skillman Avenue, 47th Street and 48th Street. Begun in early spring and done by fall, the block held six cooperative apartment buildings, 48 houses (40 built for two families, eight for one) set around a shared central court. The houses were meant for individual owners and sold quickly.

   “Their first block was Colonial Court, between 43rd (Foster) and Skillman Avenues... Begun in early spring of 1924, it was finished by the fall.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1924

   Colonial Court's shared garden starts out with a tennis court that neighbors find too noisy

   The open center of Sunnyside's first unit, Colonial Court, was first given over to a playground and a tennis court for residents. According to the 2007 landmark report, neighbors complained about the noise, and that use of the common space was stopped.

   “The open space of the first unit was initially used for a playground and tennis court but neighbors found it too noisy and this use was discontinued.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 2007

   Landmark surveyors record this Type F row house with its porch walled in by faux-brick siding

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   The 2007 survey identifies 47-15 as a Type F house in a row of nine on 43rd Avenue whose five middle houses step back from the street. Its front porch had been enclosed with faux-brick composition siding and two-over-two windows, and the second-floor terrace had a later wood railing and an awning frame. A historic coal chute still survived at the basement, while most of the front yard had been paved in concrete.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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