2061 Gates Avenue

also 662 Grandview Avenue | Ridgewood | built 1930

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1908

    Louis Berger and Company designs this corner building on Gates Avenue for G.X. Mathews

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    The plans for this corner building, filed under permit NB 2483-08, name Louis Berger and Company as architect and G.X. Mathews as owner and developer. Its buff brick fronts on Gates and Grandview Avenues, nine bays long on Grandview, are trimmed with carved limestone lintels, rough-faced brown brick bands and brick pilasters on carved stone bases, under a cornice decorated with swags.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1910

    The 1910 census finds working-class owners living in their own buildings on this side of Gates Avenue

    The 1910 federal census shows high home ownership among the first residents of the northwest side of Gates Avenue, where this building stands. Many buildings were occupied by their owners, most of them German immigrants who lived in one apartment and rented the others to help pay the mortgage and upkeep; their jobs included grocer, builder, baker, cook and picture framer. Of the row's 18 buildings, eight were owner-occupied, four had owners living elsewhere, and six lack complete records.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1928

    A one-story store and a one-story garage are added on the Grandview Avenue side in 1928 and 1935

    Alteration permits from 1928 and 1935 (ALT 1474-28 and ALT 3717-35) added low additions to the building's Grandview Avenue side: a one-story store, now with a three-part window and a metal awning, and a one-story garage closed by a metal roll gate. The original ground-floor storefronts on both avenues have since been filled in with masonry and windows.

    “Garage and store additions , 1928, 1935 (ALT 1474-28, ALT 3717-35)…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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