60-48 68th Road

Ridgewood | built 1910

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

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1925
Silver Street becomes 68th Road when the Board of Aldermen renames Ridgewood's streets
In 1925 the Board of Aldermen renamed most of Ridgewood's streets, carrying out a plan for numbered Queens streets that Borough President Maurice E. Connolly had ordered the Topographical Bureau to prepare in 1911. The aim was to end the duplicated names left after the borough's towns and villages joined the city in 1898. In the process this building's street, Silver Street, became 68th Road, and its side street, Buchman Avenue, became 60th Lane.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2014
Landmark report records the corner flats building at 60-48 68th Road and 60th Lane
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The 2014 designation report lists 60-48 68th Road, also addressed on 60th Lane, as a three-story flats building on a basement, though its date, architect and first owner could not be determined. Its Renaissance Revival front carries a triangular pedimented stone door hood with incised details, rough-faced brick insets and banding, and a cornice of egg-and-dart moldings, consoles and swags.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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