60-56 70th Avenue

also 70-03 60th Lane, 70-05 60th Lane | Ridgewood | built 1909

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

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1906
German-born mason Paul Stier buys farmland and becomes Ridgewood's largest developer
Paul Stier, born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874, came to America alone as a teenager in 1891 and worked as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo. He moved to the Ridgewood area in 1902, bought a large part of the former Debevoise farm in 1906 and started building in earnest in 1907. He built about half of the row houses in what is now the Central Ridgewood Historic District, 392 of his 481 buildings there going up between 1907 and 1909, and Stier Place is named for him.
“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
1909
Paul Stier puts up a store-and-apartments building on the corner of 60th Lane
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In 1909 Paul Stier built this three-story store and apartment building under permit NB 3604-1909, designed by Louis Berger & Company in the Renaissance Revival style. It has three bays, rough-faced brick bands and a bracketed metal cornice trimmed with swags and egg-and-dart moldings; the west side has a bracketed, gabled entry to the upper floors. A one-story brick garage with roll-up doors sits at the back of the lot on 60th Lane.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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