60-93 70th 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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1906
German-born builder Paul Stier buys the former Debevoise farmland where this row now stands
In 1906 Paul Stier bought a large part of the former Debevoise farm north of Myrtle Avenue, between today's 60th Street and Fresh Pond Road, and started building on it in 1907. Born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874, Stier crossed to America alone as a teenager in 1891, apprenticed as a mason in Buffalo, and moved to the Ridgewood area in 1902. From 1907 through 1909 he erected 392 of the 481 buildings he would develop within what became the Central Ridgewood Historic District.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Paul Stier builds 60-93 as part of a 22-building row designed by Louis Berger & Company
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Builder Paul Stier put up this two-family Renaissance Revival house around 1908 under permit NB 2879-1908, with plans by Louis Berger & Company. It is one of 22 buildings running from 60-57 to 60-99 70th Avenue: 21 two-family row houses ended by a single flats building at the Fresh Pond Road corner. The brick front swells into a full-height curved bay, and the doorway sits under a bracketed stone hood with a triangular pediment and incised decoration.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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