2015 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 is cleaned and repointed, but its bluestone stoop is faced over in brick
Completed in 1911 as one of six houses designed by Louis Allmendinger for G. X. Mathews, the building has had its buff and amber brick facade cleaned and repointed. Its original bluestone stoop has been covered in brick, the door surround and base painted white, a metal sign fixed to the front and vinyl windows installed. The white-painted cornice with swags and cartouches and the historic basement railing remain.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1918
January 23
A city housing official recommends flats like this one for wartime shipyard workers
In a letter of January 23, 1918, a Tenement House Department commissioner wrote to J. Rogers Flannery, Director of Housing, proposing Mathews Model Flats to relieve the housing shortage facing U.S. Government shipyard employees. The letter said the design had become a standard in Queens, used both by the Mathews Company and by other builders.
“…recommended “Mathews Model Flats” to J. Rogers Flannery, Director of Housing as a solution to the shortage of housing for U.S. Government shipyard employees…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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