60-33 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 60-33 70th Avenue to a Louis Berger design with a curved bay and porch
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Paul Stier, the house's original owner, built 60-33 70th Avenue around 1908 under new building permit 74 of that year, with Louis Berger & Company as architects. The two-family Renaissance Revival house is two stories over a basement, of brick, stone, wood and iron, with rough-faced stone lintels, rough-faced brick panels, and a cornice with consoles and swags.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2014
60-33 70th Avenue gains new moldings on its porch and first-story windows
At the 2014 landmarks survey, the porch of this house had been replaced except for the roof, whose cornice was covered with sheet metal and given added moldings on the roof and ceiling. Moldings had also been added around the first-story windows, and a through-the-wall air conditioner installed. The original front door and the original cornice remained, with tiled steps and a retaining wall in the areaway.
“…porch roof cornice covered with sheet metal and moldings added to porch roof and ceiling; non-historic infill at porch base; moldings added at first-story windows…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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