47-02 Skillman Avenue

also 41-01 47th Street | Sunnyside | built 1924

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

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

1924
Spring
City Housing Corporation builds this corner house as part of Colonial Court, Sunnyside's first block
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Colonial Court, the block framed by Skillman and 43rd Avenues and 47th and 48th Streets, was the first section the City Housing Corporation put up at Sunnyside Gardens. Work started in early spring 1924 and finished that fall. The block held six cooperative apartment buildings along with eight one-family and 40 two-family houses, all arranged around a shared central court, and the houses, meant for owner-occupants, found buyers quickly.
“Begun in early spring of 1924, it was finished by the fall.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
The corner house at 47th Street keeps its gabled parapet of pierced brick and its bracketed wood door hood
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's survey lists 47-02 Skillman Avenue, at the 47th Street end of its row, as a type D' house. It still has a historic wood-and-glass entrance door with a grille, a bracketed wooden hood over the entry and a gabled parapet worked in decorative pierced brick. Its windows are aluminum replacements, and half the front yard is paved and laid with artificial grass.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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