60-61 68th Road

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 puts up 60-61 68th Road, a three-story two-family house by Louis Berger & Company
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Filed as NB 1924-1909, the house is three stories of brick, stone and metal with a rounded bay rising its full height. Corbelled brick sits below the windows, a projecting metal cornice with a frieze of festoons crowns the front, and the entrance is framed by a carved, pedimented stone hood. Later changes include aluminum awnings, a single replacement door with narrow sidelights and an intercom, and mailboxes on the basement wall.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
60-61 68th Road goes up on a street then named Silver Street
When Stier built this row, 68th Road went by the name Silver Street. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report lists it among many renamed streets in the district: 68th Avenue had been Hughes Street, Catalpa Avenue was Elm Avenue and 60th Lane was Buchman Avenue. A few streets, among them Fresh Pond Road, Forest Avenue and Onderdonk Avenue, kept their original names. Queens phased in the renaming between 1915 and 1926 to end duplicate street names across the borough.
“Changed street names within the Central Ridgewood Historic District include ... 68th Road (Silver Street)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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