59-05 70th Avenue

also 69-19 Forest 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.

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  1. 1911

    Louis Berger & Company designs a three-story apartment house for Jacob Erbach at 70th and Forest Avenues

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    This corner apartment building, also numbered 69-19 Forest Avenue and 59-01 70th Avenue, was designed by Louis Berger & Company for its original owner, Jacob Erbach, in 1911 under permit NB 1607-1911. The ten-bay brick and stone front has a brownstone water table, pilasters rising several stories, continuous bands of sills and lintels, a dentil course over the third story and a pressed-metal cornice with swags and wreaths. A historic wrought-iron fire escape and an old fire box on the corner survive; one first-story bay on the side facade became a second entrance.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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