60-70 67th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1911

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1911

    Immigrant bricklayers led by two local masons build Paul Stier's houses like 60-70 67th Avenue

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    Paul Stier, the original owner of this house of about 1911, hired two local masons, James Reilly and John MacDonald, to oversee a crew of some 50 bricklayers who built his Ridgewood houses. Many of the bricklayers were German and Italian immigrants, and they set the face brick and the stone ornament. In Ridgewood, the brick supplied by Kreischer, a Staten Island manufacturer, was mostly a light-colored iron-spot type.

    “Paul Stier hired a pair of local masons, James Reilly and John MacDonald, to supervise a staff of 50 or so bricklayers…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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