60-83 71st 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
August Bauer puts up 60-83 71st Avenue, a curved-bay flats building by Louis Berger & Company
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Built in 1908 on Block 3537, Lot 33 for developer August Bauer, this flats building was designed by Louis Berger & Company and filed as new building 2907 of that year. It stands three stories over a basement in brick and stone, with window sills set in continuous bands over corbelled brick and a pressed-metal cornice with egg-and-dart moldings. Its stoop has been rebuilt, but its original front door and pressed-metal cornice remain.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Ridgewood builders sell most new houses to owners who live in one unit and rent out the rest
The Real Estate Record and Guide reported that new building in the greater Ridgewood area in these years was mostly two- and three-story brick houses and tenements priced from $9,000 to $17,000. Builders generally sold them to private buyers, who occupied one apartment and let the others to tenants for income; August Bauer put up this flats building in 1908. Almost all the builders, architects and suppliers behind the Central Ridgewood rows were of German descent.
“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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