60-37 71st 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 builds 60-37 71st Avenue as a two-family house designed by Louis Berger & Company
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Paul Stier was the original owner of this two-story house on a raised basement, built in 1907 under new-building permit NB 794-1907 as part of a row with plans by Louis Berger & Company. The Renaissance Revival brick-and-stone front has three bays, two of them in a shallow curved projection, rough-faced brick bands and stone lintels, and a bracketed pressed-metal cornice with swags. Its cornice is original, while the stoop ironwork and windows have been replaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
The builder of this house becomes Ridgewood's largest single developer
This house's builder, Paul Stier, had settled in the Ridgewood area in 1902 and turned out brick row houses in large numbers, becoming the biggest single developer in Ridgewood and among the largest building operators in New York City. Of the 481 buildings he eventually put up inside the Central Ridgewood Historic District, he built 392 between 1907 and 1909, the years this row went up. A small street in the district, Stier Place, carries his name.
“His most active years were from 1907 to 1909, when he built 392 of the 481 buildings…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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