60-39 67th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1901

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1909
Paul Stier, the district's most prolific builder, puts up 60-39 at the peak of his output
Owner and builder Paul Stier was born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874, came to America on his own as a teenager in 1891 and apprenticed as a mason in Buffalo before settling in Ridgewood in 1902. After buying a large part of the old Debevoise farm in 1906, he went on to erect about half the row houses in the Central Ridgewood Historic District. This house dates from 1909, the last year of his busiest stretch: from 1907 to 1909 he built 392 of his 481 buildings there.
“…from 1907 to 1909, when he built 392 of the 481 buildings that he eventually developed within the historic district…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
A full-height curved bow and a side driveway with a historic metal gate mark 60-39
Louis Berger & Company designed this two-family house for Paul Stier under a 1909 new-building permit (NB 1927-1909). A full-height curved bow fills its west side, and contrasting brick panels sit beneath each window under a deep bracketed metal cornice with festoons. A concrete driveway along the west side still has a historic metal gate at the lot line, and a two-car garage with modern overhead doors stands at the rear of the lot.
“Full-height curved bow on west; ... Site Features: Driveway faced with concrete on west side of building; historic metal gate at lot line…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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