Hamilton Court Apartments

46-01 Skillman Avenue | also 46-15 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
Sunnyside's builders make Hamilton Court's apartments rentals after their co-op experiment falters
The City Housing Corporation had sold Sunnyside's first apartments as cooperatives, but concluded they posed too many problems to offer to low-income owners. Its later apartments, at Hamilton, Monroe and Wilson Courts, were simple rentals that proved popular and immediately profitable. They made up about 21 percent of Sunnyside's homes, in three- to five-story walk-ups that included 14 stores. By 1928 the company considered Sunnyside finished and moved on to Radburn, New Jersey.
“The apartments at Hamilton Court, Monroe Court and Wilson Court, or approximately 21% of the total residences of Sunnyside Gardens are rental units…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
The corner shop at 46-01 Skillman Avenue sets wooden display cases on casters in front of its facade
When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described each Hamilton Court storefront in 2007, the one at 46-01 Skillman Avenue had a wood-and-glass door beside a wood casement sidelight and large fixed windows in wood frames. A big fabric and aluminum awning spanned the front, and freestanding wood display cases on casters stood before it, not attached to the building.
“…wood display cases (on casters, not attached to the building) front the facade…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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