47-18 Skillman Avenue

also 41-02 48th Street | Sunnyside | built 1924

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

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1924
Sunnyside's planners keep cars and garages away from houses like this one
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Although cars were growing popular, Clarence Stein and Henry Wright separated automobiles and their garages from the homes at Sunnyside, grouping garages a short walk away in less desirable spots, such as a row facing 43rd Street. Some critics saw the choice as rooted in nineteenth-century ideals of the suburban home as a refuge for families from the city.
“…the architects c hose to segregate cars and thei r garages from the main living areas of the development…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
A one-car brick garage is attached to the 48th Street side of 47-18 Skillman Avenue
This house at the 48th Street end of its row, also listed as 41-02 48th Street, had gained a non-historic one-story brick garage with cast-stone coping and a concrete driveway on its 48th Street side by the 2007 landmark survey. Its parapet had been resurfaced in stucco, the second-floor openings altered, and a large antenna stood on the roof.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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