60-59 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.

1909
A brick house with a curved bay and stone-hooded door rises for builder Paul Stier
Recorded under new-building permit 1918 of 1909, this house was put up for Paul Stier to designs by Louis Berger & Company. Its Renaissance Revival facade pairs a full-height rounded bay with contrasting brick bands between the second-story windows, corbelled brick beneath the windows, and a stone door hood crowned by a carved triangular pediment. The double wood-and-glass doors survive beneath a later glass-and-metal awning.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
The Board of Aldermen renames Hughes Street, the house's original street, as 68th Avenue
In 1925 the Board of Aldermen renamed most streets in the Ridgewood area, putting into effect a numbering plan that Queens Borough President Maurice E. Connolly had ordered the Topographical Bureau to draw up in 1911. The goal was to end the confusion of duplicate names left over from the 1898 consolidation, when Queens had ten different Main Streets. Under the change this block's Hughes Street became 68th Avenue.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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