60-87 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 builds 60-87 71st Avenue, which keeps its original cast-iron and wrought-iron areaway fence
Read more
Built in 1908 for August Bauer on Block 3537, Lot 31, this three-story flats building was designed by Louis Berger & Company and filed under new-building application 2907. Like its neighbors it has four bays, three set in a curved front, and a cornice decorated with swags. It still has its original stoop, front door, and cast-iron posts with wrought-iron fence and gates around the areaway.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1910
August Bauer joins Paul Stier to form Bauer & Stier, Inc., two years after building this house
In 1910 August Bauer, who had built this row in 1908, went into business with fellow Ridgewood builder Paul Stier as Bauer & Stier, Inc., which kept developing housing in Ridgewood and nearby parts of Queens. Bauer was active in local civic life, belonging to the Ridgewood Board of Trade, the Ridgewood Democratic Club and the Wyckoff Heights Taxpayers Association. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report also describes him as an astute businessman.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

Nearby