60-90 69th Avenue
Ridgewood | built 1909
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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.
- 1909
Paul Stier builds 60-90 69th Avenue, with a decorative vent grille set into its stoop
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This two-family house dates from about 1909 (permit NB 2622-1909) and is one of 23 row houses at 60-56 to 60-98 69th Avenue that Paul Stier built to designs by Louis Berger & Company. Besides its full-height curved bay, rough-faced brick panels and swagged cornice, it keeps a decorative metal vent grille in the stoop.
- 1909
Stier and Berger speed up houses like this one with a few stock floor plans
The landmarks report says Stier and Berger finished their houses quickly by reusing a handful of floor plans and facade designs with different surface treatments. Most of their houses were about 20 feet wide, with a five-room apartment on the first floor and six-room apartments above, each with its own kitchen and bathroom. Arches in the brick party walls seem to have been left open during construction so workers could move from house to house.
- 2014
A doorbell and three mailboxes sit by the basement entrance of 60-90, the landmarks report finds
In the Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2014 report, the house still had its original cornice and its stoop vent grille, though the stoop was painted and its railings, primary door and windows had been replaced. A doorbell and three mailboxes had been mounted by the basement entrance, and a cover sat over the hatch doors in the areaway. The rear wall was parged, with a fire escape and a satellite dish on the roof.
“…doorbell and three mailboxes by basement entrance ... Site Features: Cover over hatch doors in areaway…”
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