1866 Madison Street

Ridgewood | built 1911

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1911

    Allmendinger's 1911 permit for nine Madison Street flats includes number 1866

    Number 1866 Madison Street went up under NB 2318-11, the 1911 permit G. X. Mathews filed for nine flats on the east side of the block between Onderdonk and Woodward Avenues. Louis Allmendinger designed the group in a mix of Renaissance and Romanesque Revival styles. The nine buildings stand on lots 1 through 16 of Queens tax block 3471, with the corner building at 1852 also numbered 775 and 777 Onderdonk Avenue.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1911

    Each floor holds two five-room apartments with private baths but no hot water

    Buildings like 1866 Madison Street followed the Mathews Model Flats plan: a lot 27.5 feet wide, two apartments per floor, and six apartments in a three-story building. Each unit had a kitchen, living and dining rooms, a bedroom and a sitting room, plus its own bathroom, lit from shared light shafts. These were cold-water flats with no central heat; tenants warmed them with a kitchen coal stove and a kerosene heater in the living room.

    “…a coal stove in the kitchen and a kerosene heater in the living room were used to heat each apartment…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1915

    April 29

    The Mathews company reports 153 of its 167 Ridgewood South tenements already sold

    As construction on the old Meyerrose farm was ending, the G. X. Mathews Company reported that it had already found buyers for 153 of the 167 tenements it had put up there. The figure appeared in a Newtown Register article of April 29, 1915, headlined “Old Farms Now Tenement City.”

    “…the G. X. Mathews Company reported that 153 of the 167 tenements built in the district had already been sold.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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