60-61 68th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1909
Paul Stier builds a bay-front house with egg-and-dart moldings on its window frames
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Louis Berger & Company designed this two-family house for builder Paul Stier, filed under new-building permit 1918 of 1909. The designation survey lists original one-over-one wood sash windows with egg-and-dart moldings on their frames among its features, along with original double wood-and-glass doors and an iron areaway fence, gate and newel posts.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Ridgewood's new brick houses sell to owners who live in one flat and rent the other
According to the Real Estate Record and Guide, most new building in Ridgewood at the time was brick houses and tenements of two or three stories, priced between $9,000 and $17,000. Builders sold most of them to private owners, who occupied one apartment and rented out the rest for income. The landmarks report says this made Ridgewood a leading destination for working-class families looking for an affordable way to own a home.
“Most of the houses were sold by builders to private owners, who lived in one of the apartments and rented the others for income.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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