60-81 71st Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1908

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

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1908
Louis Berger & Company designs 60-81 71st Avenue for August Bauer's 1908 flats row
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This three-story flats building on Block 3537, Lot 34 was built in 1908 for August Bauer under the same new-building application, number 2907, as its neighbors in the row. Berger's design gives it four bays, three in a rounded projection, a brownstone water table and a bracketed lintel over the entrance. The original front door remains, while the stoop has been altered and painted and fitted with a newer iron handrail; hanging plants on brackets were added to the front.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
The Board of Aldermen renames Ridgewood's streets, and Van Courtlandt Avenue becomes 71st Avenue
The street this building faces was laid out as Van Courtlandt Avenue. In 1925 the Board of Aldermen renamed most streets in the Ridgewood area under a numbering plan for Queens that Borough President Maurice E. Connolly had ordered drawn up in 1911, after consolidation in 1898 left the borough with duplicate names, ten Main Streets among them.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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