2010 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.

1918
January 23
A city housing official holds up Mathews flats like this one as a model for wartime housing
In a letter of January 23, 1918, a Tenement House Department commissioner urged J. Rogers Flannery, Director of Housing, to adopt Mathews Model Flats for the shortage of homes for U.S. Government shipyard employees. The letter said Queens had adopted the design as a standard, both for the Mathews company and for other builders.
“…a commissioner of the Tenement House Department recommended “Mathews Model Flats” to J. Rogers Flannery, Director of Housing…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2009
The house retains its bluestone stoop and iron railings from 1910
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This five-bay house still had its bluestone stoop with iron railing, the old railing at its under-stoop entry and part of its areaway railing when the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed it in 2009. The stoop had been resurfaced and painted gray, the doors and windows replaced, and mesh grilles added at the basement.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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