60-40 69th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1908

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1908

    Paul Stier and Louis Berger & Company put up 60-40 69th Avenue around 1908

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    This two-family house on lot 20 of Queens tax block 3516 was filed around 1908 under new-building permit 349-1908, with Paul Stier as original owner and Louis Berger & Company as architect. It belongs to a block front of 24 buildings, 23 two-family row houses and one flats building, numbered 60-02 to 60-48 69th Avenue.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1908

    60-40 69th Avenue keeps its original door behind an altered stoop and porch

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    The Renaissance Revival house has a curved bay rising its full height, a front porch across its whole width, rough-faced brick banding and inset panels, and a cornice with consoles and swags. Its primary door and cornice are original. The stoop has been altered with cast stone treads, the porch given new metal piers and railings, and grilles added at the first-story windows.

    “Alterations: Non-historic metal stoop and porch railings and porch piers; stoop altered with cast stone treads…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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