60-51 68th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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.

1851
Farmer George Hulst buys the land this house was later built on
Before the houses, this was farmland owned by the Debevoise family. George Hulst rented the stretch north of Catalpa Avenue up to Putnam Avenue from the Debevoises in 1847 and bought it outright in 1851. He began selling lots on the west side of his estate of more than 65 acres in the 1860s, but his family kept much of the land east of today's 60th Lane, where this house stands, into the first decade of the 20th century.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Paul Stier builds a two-family bay-front house that keeps its original double doors
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This two-story Renaissance Revival two-family house, filed by Paul Stier under permit NB 1918-1909 and designed by Louis Berger & Company, has a full-height rounded bay, contrasting brick spandrel panels and a pedimented stone door hood on brackets. Its original wood-and-glass double doors are still in place behind a later aluminum awning.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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