60-50 68th Road

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
A three-story flats building for Paul Stier anchors the 60th Lane corner of 68th Road
Built for Paul Stier under new-building permit 1922 of 1909, this three-story Renaissance Revival flats building was designed by Louis Berger & Company. It stands at one end of an 11-building group, numbers 60-50 through 60-70 68th Road, where the other ten are two-family row houses. Behind it stands a one-story brick garage for two cars with a stepped parapet, which the Landmarks Preservation Commission counted as historic, though its door is modern.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Paul Stier, the German-born builder of half of Central Ridgewood's row houses, puts up this corner building
This building went up in 1909 for Paul Stier, who was born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874, crossed to America on his own as a teenager in 1891 and worked as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo before settling in the Ridgewood area in 1902. He became the largest developer in Ridgewood, putting up about half the row houses in today's Central Ridgewood Historic District. Between 1907 and 1909, his busiest years, he completed 392 of his 481 buildings there, and a short street in the district, Stier Place, carries his name.
“His most active years were 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

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