60-44 69th 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 60-44 69th Avenue as part of the even-numbered row
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Paul Stier was the first owner of this two-family house, filed around 1908 under new-building permit 349-1908 with Louis Berger & Company as architect. It is one of 24 buildings, 23 two-family row houses and a flats building, from 60-02 to 60-48 69th Avenue. The house stands on lot 22 of Queens tax block 3516.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
60-44 69th Avenue gains a fire escape and three mailboxes on its curved-bay front
Berger designed the house with a curved bay rising its full height, a porch across the front, banding and inset panels of rough-faced brick, and a cornice with consoles, swags and egg-and-dart. A possibly historic metal railing sits above the original wood railing at the porch's east side. Later changes include a granite porch floor, three mailboxes beside the main entrance and a fire escape.
“…three mailboxes by main entrance; light fixture with exposed conduit and plaque at center of first-story facade; fire escape…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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