2011 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 flats like this one sell for $11,000 with owners renting out five units
Newspapers of the period put the price of the district's six-family brick flats houses at $11,000. A buyer could put down about $2,000 in cash, live in one apartment and let the other five pay the mortgage interest, taxes, water and insurance. Apartments rented as soon as they were finished, and the Mathews company boasted that its buyers had never suffered a foreclosure.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2009
This house keeps its historic doors but its stoop has been rebuilt
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The 2009 survey found this house with its original paired wood-and-glass doors and an under-stoop entry with its old railing. The stoop itself had been rebuilt in brick and cast stone with new railings and a gate, the stone base was stuccoed white, and vinyl windows filled every opening. The cornice with swags and cartouches was painted gray.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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