1852 Madison Street

also 777 Onderdonk Avenue | Ridgewood | built 1911

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.

1911
1852 Madison Street is built as a corner tenement with stores on Onderdonk Avenue
Filed in 1911 under permit NB 2318-11, this corner building (also 775-777 Onderdonk Avenue) was designed by Louis Allmendinger for G. X. Mathews and heads a row of nine running up Madison Street. Storefronts line the ground floor of its nine-bay Onderdonk Avenue side. Its corner storefront has since been removed, but historic pressed-metal cornices, doors and some wood framing survive at the other storefronts.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Mathews's company wins a quarter of all Queens tenement permits the year this corner is filed
In 1911, the year plans for 1852 Madison Street were filed, the G. X. Mathews Company received 25 percent of the tenement house certificates issued in Queens. Having agreed to buy the old Meyerrose farm that year, the company built nearly 170 model tenements on it. By the mid-1910s Ridgewood had few large tracts left, and the firm moved on to Astoria, Woodhaven, Corona and Long Island City.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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