60-09 69th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1908

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

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1908
Paul Stier builds 60-09 69th Avenue, whose basement later becomes a garage
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Louis Berger & Company designed this tan-brick two-family house, built for Paul Stier around 1908 under new-building permit 1766 as part of the row from 60-03 to 60-47. Its rounded two-story bay carries limestone sills and a cornice decorated with festoons. In a later alteration the central porch pier was taken out and the basement wall opened up to make a garage, reached by a ramp beside a new brick retaining wall, with a no-parking sign on the porch above.
“…central porch pier removed to enable creation of basement garage…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Open arches in the party walls speed the building of Stier's rows
Paul Stier and Louis Berger finished houses quickly by working from only a few floor plans and facade designs, varied with different surface treatments. The brick party walls dividing each house in a row contained interior relieving arches, which seem to have been left open while building so that workers and materials could pass from house to house. That spared crews from going in and out of each house by its own stoop, and the arches were probably closed only near completion.
“…brick party walls between separate buildings within each row had interior relieving arches that appear to have been left open during construction…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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