45-11 Skillman Avenue

Sunnyside | built 1926

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

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1925
December 31
Easements for tax block 154, home of this Washington Court row, are dated the last day of 1925
The Sunnyside easements covering tax blocks 154 and 155 are dated December 31, 1925; 45-11 Skillman Avenue stands on block 154. Buyers signed the covenants when they bought their lots, and their main purpose was to keep the shared space at the center of each block open to all residents. At the mortgage banks' insistence most of them were set to expire after forty years, generally in 1966, though a few, such as rules keeping light and air from being blocked, were to last forever.
“…copies of the easements for Blocks 154 and 155 (dated December 31, 1925)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
45-11 Skillman Avenue is built without the two-story back porch of its row neighbors
45-11 Skillman Avenue and its mirror-image neighbor at 45-09 were designed without the rear porches found elsewhere in this Washington Court row. Their two-bay back walls had six-over-six double-hung windows in both first-floor openings, and upstairs one six-over-six window beside a smaller four-over-four. In later years one ground-floor window opening was widened so a door could be fitted.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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