2003 Woodbine Street

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
The flats house keeps its green-painted historic double doors and bluestone stoop
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Built in 1911 for G. X. Mathews to Louis Allmendinger's design, this five-bay house still has its historic paired wood-and-glass doors, now painted green, and its bluestone stoop. Carved limestone lintels with keystones mark the ground floor, and a bracketed limestone hood tops the door. Wood windows survive in most openings, though vinyl replacements fill part of the facade.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Six cold-water flats open with private bathrooms but no hot water or central heat
Houses like this one held six apartments, two per floor, each with five rooms and its own bathroom with toilet, sink and tub. The Landmarks Preservation Commission notes these were cold-water flats: running water reached every floor, but there was no hot water or central heating, so each apartment was heated by 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

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