59-05 Catalpa 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 is credited with this three-story flats building, though no permit for it was found
The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates 59-05 Catalpa Avenue to about 1908 and attributes it to Louis Berger & Company, noting that its design nearly matches the neighboring flats that Joseph Barudio and Charles Fritz built. Researchers found no new-building permit, so the original owners are given only as possibly Barudio and Fritz. The iron-spot brick front has fluted, splayed lintels whose keystones are carved as masks, and a metal cornice trimmed with wreaths and festoons.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1914
A ground-floor shop at 59-05 Catalpa Avenue appears on the 1914 Sanborn map, later bricked up
A storefront was already in place at this building when the 1914 Sanborn fire-insurance map was drawn. Some time after 1940 the shop was taken out and its opening filled with brick, a door and two windows. Historic cast-iron storefront piers remain at each end of the ground story.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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