47-08 Skillman Avenue

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
Colonial Court's shared garden behind this row opens with play spaces and tennis courts
The first buildings at Colonial Court, this house among them, backed onto a common garden court laid out with ornamental gardens, a pergola-shaded play area for infants, a recreation space for young children and tennis courts. Courts laid out after Sunnyside Park was planned were landscaped as quieter gardens instead, to avoid the noise that such organized recreation brought.
“…structured play areas, including “decorative gardens, infants’ play space with pergola, young children’s recreation space, and tennis courts.”…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
By 2007 the porch of 47-08 Skillman Avenue is enclosed in brick below its second-floor terrace
The 2007 landmark survey found this type F' house with a non-historic brick porch enclosure on its Skillman Avenue front, fitted with a door, a window, an awning and a copper downspout. The second-floor terrace on top had a brick railing and a corrugated metal awning, and a brick porch had been added at the rear. A two-tier awning enclosure covered the basement entry.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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