60-31 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
Paul Stier builds 60-31 70th Avenue as one of 24 buildings on the north side of the block
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Builder Paul Stier was the original owner of this two-family house, built around 1908 under new building permit 74 of that year to designs by Louis Berger & Company. It belongs to a run of 24 buildings at 60-01 to 60-47 70th Avenue: one flats building and 23 two-family row houses. The Renaissance Revival front has a full-height curved bay and a full-width front porch, one of three adjacent 1908 Stier rows given porches like those Berger designed on nearby Stockholm Street. Those porches were open wood structures on brick columns, approached by graystone stoops, with wood railings and Tuscan columns carrying molded roofs.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2014
60-31 70th Avenue's porch has been rebuilt except for its roof
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2014 survey found the original porch replaced apart from its roof, which had been sheathed in sheet metal, with newer metal columns and railings, a tiled floor and infill at the base. Three mailboxes and a house-number plaque hung by the entrance, while the original front door and the cornice with egg-and-dart moldings survived.
“…porch replaced except for roof, which is covered with sheet metal; non-historic metal porch columns and porch railings; tiles at porch floor…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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