60-22 70th 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 60-22 70th Avenue as a curved-bay two-family house designed by Louis Berger & Company
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Filed under new-building permit NB 826-1907, this Renaissance Revival house of two stories over a basement belongs to Stier's 1907 row on the north side of the block. Its front has three bays, two of them in a curved projection, with a rough-faced brownstone stoop. The 2014 designation report recorded the original front door, the original cast-iron newel posts and wrought-iron stoop railings, and a historic cast-iron and wrought-iron areaway fence still in place, along with a satellite dish on the roof.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
Paul Stier, a German-born former mason's apprentice, puts up this house during his busiest building years
Stier, born in Mecklenburg in 1874, came to America alone as a teenager in 1891 and apprenticed as a mason in Buffalo before moving to the Ridgewood area in 1902. Between 1907 and 1909 he put up 392 of the 481 buildings he eventually developed in what became the Central Ridgewood Historic District, where he built about half of all the row houses. He became Ridgewood's largest single developer, and Stier Place in the district carries his name.
“His most active years were from 1907 to 1909, when he built 392 of the 481 buildings that he eventually developed within the historic district.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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