60-23 70th 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
Stier and Berger build 60-23 70th Avenue in a row of porch-fronted two-family houses
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Built around 1908 under permit NB 74-1908, this house is one of 24 buildings on the south side of the block, 60-01 to 60-47, made up of a flats building and 23 two-family row houses. The house has a full-height curved bay behind a porch running the width of the front, with rough-faced stone lintels and an egg-and-dart cornice. The 2014 designation report recorded an original front door and an original metal areaway fence and gate, while the stoop had been replaced and two security cameras mounted over the entrance.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Louis Berger, architect of more than 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings, designs this row
Berger was born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, came to America as a young boy in 1880 and made Ridgewood his home from 1892. After studying at Pratt Institute and apprenticing with Carrere & Hastings, he opened his own Bushwick office in 1895 and specialized in tenement design and the laws that governed it. He designed houses for most of Ridgewood's builders, later became secretary-treasurer of Bauer & Stier, Inc., and served as president of the Brooklyn Society of Architects.
“Berger was known to have been the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick between 1895 and 1930.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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