60-60 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
Paul Stier puts up a north-facing two-family house designed by Louis Berger & Company
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Built about 1909 under new-building permit 1920 of that year, this two-story Renaissance Revival house had Paul Stier as its first owner and Louis Berger & Company as designers. Like its neighbors it has a full-height rounded bay, stone lintels and sills, and a bracketed metal cornice with festoons. A historic gate survives in its areaway fence, while later additions include an aluminum awning, an address sign and a security light.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1915
The elevated railway is extended to Fresh Pond Road and 67th Avenue, speeding trips from the new rows
Ridgewood's growth into a dense neighborhood followed transit: the electric trolley arrived in 1894, and elevated trains came around 1900. In 1915 the El was pushed past its first end point at Myrtle and Wyckoff Avenues as far as Fresh Pond Road and 67th Avenue, giving the area quick and reliable rail service. The landmarks report notes that Ridgewood drew upwardly mobile German-Americans leaving crowded Bushwick, Williamsburg and the Lower East Side.
“…the El was extended from its original terminus at Myrtle and Wyckoff Avenues to Fresh Pond Road and 67th Avenue in 1915.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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