60-60 68th Road

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 nearly doubles his Ridgewood holdings by buying Hulst farmland where 60-60 68th Road rises
In 1909 Stier bought a large part of the Hulst family farm, the tract north of Catalpa Avenue between present-day 60th Lane and Fresh Pond Road, almost doubling the size of his development. This block of 68th Road, which runs east from 60th Lane just north of Catalpa Avenue, lies in that area. The Hulst land adjoined the part of the old Debevoise farm that Stier had bought in 1906 and begun building on in 1907.
“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
1909
Stier's row at 60-60 68th Road is finished with stone door hoods and swagged cornices
Filed as NB 1922-1909 and designed by Louis Berger & Company, 60-60 is a two-story Renaissance Revival house over a basement, built of brick, stone and iron. It has a bracketed stone door hood with a triangular pediment and incised ornament, rough-faced brick panels and a cornice with consoles and swags; the metal vent grille in the stoop also survives. The landmark survey noted later fixed awnings over both entrances, three utility meters on the front and a wooden balcony at the rear.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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