Madison Court

Madison Court was developed as a single court in 1927, but its northern and southern sections use two distinctly different planning arrangements.

Madison Court North is organized as three paired mews set perpendicular to the street. The houses face inward toward elevated garden courts reached by brick steps from 44th Street, while service driveways run behind the rows at a lower grade. Madison Court South follows a more traditional perimeter arrangement, with three rows surrounding a single interior garden.

Together, the two sections show how the Sunnyside Gardens planners adapted the same principles of private gardens, shared green space, pedestrian paths, and practical rear access to create very different residential environments within one block. When documented by the LPC in 2007, all four central gardens remained intact, although fencing and paving had altered some individual yards.

Highlights

• Developed as one court in 1927

• Three elevated mews gardens in Madison Court North

• One perimeter-style garden court in Madison Court South

• Brick steps, interior paths, and rear service driveways

• Four central gardens remained intact at designation