60-60 Catalpa 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
William Bachert has 60-60 Catalpa Avenue built as a three-story flats building
Louis Berger & Company drew the plans for this Renaissance Revival flats building, one of four that William Bachert, the original owner, built at 60-58 to 60-64 Catalpa Avenue under new-building application 2482 of 1909. It is three stories over a basement, with bands of rough-faced stone and decorative brick, keystoned stone lintels and incised stone panels. Its door hood was later taken off, but a historic metal railing still guards the basement entrance.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
The Board of Aldermen renames Elm Avenue, the street in front of 60-60, as Catalpa Avenue
When 60-60 Catalpa Avenue went up, its street was known as Elm Avenue. In 1925 the Board of Aldermen gave most Ridgewood streets new names, carrying out a plan begun in 1911 under Queens Borough President Maurice E. Connolly to end the duplicate street names that had confused residents since the boroughs were unified in 1898. Elm Avenue became Catalpa Avenue, and the neighboring Buchman Avenue became 60th Lane.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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