58-50 69th Avenue

also 69-04 Forest Avenue | Ridgewood | built 1908

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.

1908
Louis Berger & Company designs a round-cornered store-and-flats building for Katherina Doenecke
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This three-story store-and-flats building at the corner of Forest Avenue went up around 1908 for Katherina Doenecke as part of her seven-house row at 58-36 through 58-48 69th Avenue, though under its own new building application (NB 1500-1908). Louis Berger & Company designed it in buff iron-spot brick with limestone sills and lintels, a rounded corner and a modillioned cornice decorated with festoons. Its cast-iron storefront piers, sign band and cornice are historic.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1914
The corner building has a shop by 1914, and a brick garage follows behind it
A storefront was already in place here by 1914, when it appears on the Sanborn map of that year. A one-story iron-spot brick garage on the lot was built between 1914 and 1936, or enlarged in those years from a smaller structure standing before 1914. On the east side, a former storefront opening was later filled with dark brick and given a modern door, awning, security gate and sign.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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