60-02 Catalpa Avenue

also 68-55 60th Street | Ridgewood | built 1909

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1906
Paul Stier buys former Debevoise farmland that takes in the corner of Catalpa Avenue and 60th Street
Before this building, the district's land below Catalpa Avenue and east of Forest Avenue belonged to a large farm of the Debevoise family, sold off around the turn of the century to investors and speculators. In 1906 Paul Stier acquired a large part of the former farm north of Myrtle Avenue between today's 60th Street and Fresh Pond Road, the tract where this corner lot lies, and he started building there intensively in 1907.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Paul Stier builds a store-and-flats building at Catalpa Avenue and 60th Street
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Around 1909 Stier put up this three-story building with a store and apartments, filed under New Building application 1379-1909 and designed by Louis Berger & Company. It anchors one end of the block front, where 23 two-family houses fill 60-04 through 60-48 Catalpa Avenue, with a second store-and-flats building at the 60th Lane corner, 60-50 Catalpa Avenue. A shopfront facing Catalpa Avenue appears on the 1914 Sanborn map, and a one-story garage of orange brick was added at the rear between 1914 and 1936.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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