60-21 71st Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1907

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.

1906
Paul Stier buys part of the old Debevoise farm, the land where this house will rise
The part of Central Ridgewood south of Catalpa Avenue and east of Forest Avenue, where this block lies, belonged to a large Debevoise family farm that straddled Myrtle Avenue. The family sold it off around the turn of the century to investors and speculators, among them the D.M. Chauncey Real Estate Company. In 1906 Paul Stier acquired a large piece of the tract north of Myrtle Avenue between present-day 60th Street and Fresh Pond Road, and he began building on it intensively in 1907.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
Louis Berger gives Paul Stier's 1907 house at 60-21 its shallow curved bay front
This house, built by Paul Stier in 1907, follows the shallow-bay model that Louis Berger & Company drew for Stier's earliest rows: two stories on a raised basement, three bays wide, with two of the bays set in a shallow curved projection. Such houses got rough-faced brownstone stoops with cast-iron newel posts and wrought-iron side railings. Berger varied the brick colors and ornament from row to row while topping every front with a similar bracketed pressed-metal cornice decorated with swags. On this house the stoop ironwork has since been replaced and an aluminum awning added.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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