60-87 69th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1908

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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.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1902

    Paul Stier, the German-born mason who later builds this house, moves to Ridgewood and starts building brick rows

    Stier was born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874, came to America alone as a teenager in 1891, and trained as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo. After settling in the Ridgewood area in 1902 he became its largest single developer, erecting about half the row houses in what is now the Central Ridgewood Historic District; 392 of his 481 buildings there date from 1907 to 1909. Stier Place, a short street nearby, carries his name.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1908

    Paul Stier builds 60-87 69th Avenue as a curved-bay two-family house designed by Louis Berger & Company

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    Builder Paul Stier filed new-building permit NB 1769-1908 for this two-story house on a basement, part of a group of 23 (a flats building plus 22 two-family row houses) running from 60-55 to 60-99 69th Avenue. Louis Berger & Company gave it a Renaissance Revival front with a full-height curved bay, a pedimented stone door hood on brackets with incised ornament, and a cornice trimmed with swags, consoles and egg-and-dart.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 2014

    Landmarks surveyors record a flagpole bracket and a possibly historic front door at 60-87

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    When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described the house in its December 2014 report, the cornice was still the original and the main door was possibly historic. Later changes included newer stoop railings, a flagpole bracket on the round bay at the first story, an alarm box on the second story, and replaced windows. The stone trim and rough-faced brick on the front had been painted, and the gate under the stoop was gone.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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