60-59 Catalpa Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1909

    Paul Stier builds 60-59 Catalpa Avenue in the year he nearly doubles his Ridgewood land

    Stier, born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1874, crossed to America alone as a teenager in 1891, worked as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo and moved to the Ridgewood area in 1902. In 1909 he bought a large section of the Hulst family farm north of Catalpa Avenue between 60th Lane and Fresh Pond Road, nearly doubling his development. This two-family house dates from that year; between 1907 and 1909 he built 392 of the 481 buildings he put up in the district.

    “In 1909, Stier nearly doubled the size of his development by acquiring a large section of the adjacent Hulst family farm…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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