60-32 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 puts up 60-32 70th Avenue in his 1907 row of curved-bay houses
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Builder Paul Stier was the first owner of this two-family house, part of the same 1907 new building permit (NB 826-1907) as its neighbors on the block. Louis Berger & Company designed it in the Renaissance Revival style: two stories and a basement in brick and stone, with a pair of curved bays, rough-faced brick panels under the first-story sills and a brownstone water table.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2014
60-32 70th Avenue keeps its historic iron fence while its stoop and door change
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2014 survey recorded a painted stoop and water table at this house, an aluminum awning, utility meters and a lamp at the basement, a replacement front door and a newer wrought-iron railing down to the basement. Still in place were the historic cast-iron newel posts and wrought-iron stoop railings, and a historic cast-iron and wrought-iron fence and gate around the areaway.
“Alterations: Painted stoop and water table; aluminum awning; electrical conduit, wires, and utility meters; wall lamp at the basement…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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