2056 Gates Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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.

1909
G. X. Mathews adds 2056 Gates Avenue to a 1909 row of eight flats
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Number 2056 was built under permit NB 1860-09, filed in 1909 by developer G. X. Mathews for the eight buildings at 2044 through 2058 Gates Avenue. It occupies lot 30 of tax block 3486. Louis Berger and Company were the architects, and the row is described as Renaissance Revival in style.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2009
2056 Gates Avenue keeps its historic metal stoop railing into 2009
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The Commission's 2009 survey found an old metal stoop railing still in place here, along with the paired wood-and-glass doors, carved limestone lintels and a gray cornice with dentils and swags. Later owners had added a metal awning and light over the door, aluminum windows, a dark gray stoop and a tall new areaway fence and gate. The six-bay back wall, stuccoed gray, had a clothes line strung across it.
“…raised concrete areaway; historic metal stoop railing. Alterations: Aluminum replacement windows in all openings; metal awning and light above entry…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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