60-75 69th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1908

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.

1908
Louis Berger & Company designs a brick and stone two-family house for Paul Stier
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Builder Paul Stier was the original owner of this two-family house, erected around 1908 under permit 1769-1908 with plans by Louis Berger & Company. Two stories tall over a basement, it is built of brick, stone and iron in the Renaissance Revival style. It is one of 23 buildings, 22 of them two-family row houses and one a flats building, that line the block from 60-55 to 60-99 69th Avenue.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Stier's crews leave openings in the party walls to move through the row as they build
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Paul Stier and Louis Berger completed their houses quickly by reusing a few basic floor plans and facade designs, varied only by surface treatment. Inside each row, the brick party walls between neighboring houses had relieving arches that seem to have stayed open during construction. Workers and materials could pass from house to house without going out to the street and up each stoop, and the openings were probably closed only when the houses were close to finished.
“…the brick party walls between separate buildings within each row had interior relieving arches that appear to have been left open during construction…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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