60-17 71st Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1907

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

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1907
Paul Stier builds a curved-bay house that still has its original stoop railings
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This two-family house was part of the row Paul Stier filed in 1907 under permit 200-1907, designed by Louis Berger & Company. It keeps its rough-faced brownstone stoop with the original cast-iron newel posts and wrought-iron railing, a pressed-metal entry lintel with swags, and a bracketed cornice. Later changes are limited to a new door, replacement windows, conduit and a utility meter.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
Stier's crews appear to leave arches open between the houses while building
Stier and Berger finished houses quickly by reusing a small set of floor plans and facade designs. The brick party walls inside each row had relieving arches that seem to have stayed open during construction, letting workers move from house to house without climbing in and out by each stoop. Most houses were about 20 feet wide, with a five-room flat on the first floor and six-room flats above.
“…the 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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