60-49 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1905

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1909
Paul Stier buys part of the Hulst farm north of Catalpa Avenue and starts this corner row
In 1909 builder Paul Stier nearly doubled his holdings by buying a large part of the Hulst family farm, which lay north of Catalpa Avenue between today's 60th Lane and Fresh Pond Road. That same year he filed permit NB 3056-1909 for a row of ten buildings at 60-49 to 60-67 Catalpa Avenue, nine two-family houses anchored by this three-story corner flats building with a store, all designed by Louis Berger & Company.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2014
The corner store at 60-49 Catalpa Avenue serves the block as a laundromat
When the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Central Ridgewood Historic District in 2014, the ground floor of this 1909 corner building held a modern storefront with scissor gates and an awning for Tina's Laundermat and Dry Cleaners. Above it the original cornice with consoles and swags remains, and a historic one-story three-car brick garage with a stepped parapet stands on the lot.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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