43-05 Skillman Avenue

Sunnyside | built 1927

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1927
Madison Court is built as one court and later splits into North and South
This house belongs to Madison Court, laid out as a single court on Sunnyside Gardens' westernmost block and later split in two, as Madison Court North and South, once the original easements lapsed in the 1960s. In a May 2007 interview, Sunnyside historian Herbert Reynolds said the ordinary row houses broke away from the mews because keeping up paving, sewer and electric lines there cost more.
“Madison Court was developed as a single court and later divided into Madison Court North and Madison Court South when the initial easements expired in the 1960s.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1927
A wide Chicago-style window replaces this house's original front bay
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Built in 1927 as one of six Madison Court houses on Skillman Avenue, this one later lost its projecting front bay and a six-over-six window on the first floor, both replaced by a single Chicago-style window. Its concrete stoop keeps a historic metal railing, and its front areaway, behind a brick cheek wall and iron fence, is paved with red and bluestone set in concrete.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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