60-32 68th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1908

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.

1902
Paul Stier, the builder of this house, moves to Ridgewood and starts building brick rows
Born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1874, Paul Stier came to America by himself as a teenager in 1891 and stayed with relatives in Buffalo, where he apprenticed as a mason. He moved to the Ridgewood area in 1902 and began producing brick row houses in large numbers, soon becoming the neighborhood's biggest single developer. He built about half of the row houses in what is now the Central Ridgewood Historic District, where a small street, Stier Place, carries his name.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Builder Paul Stier files plans for a two-family house by Louis Berger & Company
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Paul Stier was the original owner of this two-family house, filed in 1908 as new-building application 1988, the same permit listed for its neighbor at 60-30 68th Avenue. Louis Berger & Company, the firm credited with all of Stier's buildings, drew it in the Renaissance Revival style in brick, stone and metal.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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