2009 Palmetto Street

Ridgewood | built 1910

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.

1910
Mathews puts six cold-water flats, each with its own bathroom, into this house
Like most houses in the district, this three-story building held six apartments, two to a floor on a lot 27.5 feet wide. Each unit had five rooms and a private bathroom with toilet, sink and tub, lit by shared light shafts. They were cold-water flats with no hot water or central heat; tenants warmed their rooms with a coal kitchen stove and a kerosene heater.
“The “cold water flats” had running water to all floors and a full bathroom – toilet, sink and tub, but no hot water or central heating system.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2009
The house keeps its historic wood doors and bluestone stoop a century on
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When the district was surveyed in 2009, this house still had its paired wood-and-glass entrance doors with a wood-grain finish, its bluestone stoop with iron railing and part of its areaway railing with newel posts. Its windows had been replaced with vinyl and the basement given sliding windows, and the base and steps were painted gray.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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