47-16 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.

2007
Private fences now block the garden path that once ran behind 47-16 Skillman Avenue
Colonial Court was laid out with four paved paths crossing the block. The 2007 landmark report found that the northernmost one, behind the row houses on Skillman Avenue including this one, could no longer be used: fences around the private rear yards cut across it, and a temporary garage structure stood at 41-11 47th Street.
“The northernmost fourth path , behind the row houses facing Skillman Avenue, is obstructed by private fences in the rear yards…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
The porch of 47-16 Skillman Avenue is enclosed in wood shingles with sliding windows
This type F' house had a non-historic porch enclosure clad in wood shingles with a door and sliding windows when the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed it in 2007. The second-floor terrace railing was gone, its door replaced by a window, and a brick deck had been built at the back door.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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