47-12 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.

1966
January 1
The forty-year easements keeping Sunnyside's shared garden courts open begin to expire
Sunnyside's deed easements, which kept the block interiors open for shared use, were written to start lapsing on January 1, 1966, as the original lenders had required. The United Trustees had tried in 1956 to get owners to extend them voluntarily and failed. Once they ended, court associations could no longer collect upkeep money, and residents began fencing off common land, adding decks and porches and cutting driveways.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
47-12 Skillman Avenue has three mailboxes and a porch closed in with vinyl siding
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The landmark survey of 2007 recorded this type F house with a porch enclosure in vinyl siding carrying three mailboxes and two flag pole mounts. The door that once opened from the second floor onto the porch roof terrace had been replaced by a window and the terrace railing taken off. The rear wall had been repointed, and a tree pit with bluestone pavers sat in the half-paved front yard.
“…non-historic porch enclosure (vinyl siding), door, metal awning, 2 flag pole mounts, light & 3 mailboxes at north facade…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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