60-95 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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1908
Louis Berger, architect of over 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings, designs 60-95
Louis Berger & Company drew this two-family house for Paul Stier about 1908; the firm is credited with more than 5,000 buildings across Ridgewood and Bushwick from 1895 to 1930. Berger, born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, came to America as a boy in 1880, studied architecture at Pratt Institute and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings before opening his own Bushwick office in 1895. Tenement houses and the laws that governed them were his specialty, and he served as president of the Brooklyn Society of Architects.
“Berger was known to have been the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2014
Landmarks survey finds 60-95's original areaway fence and gate still in place
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When the Landmarks Preservation Commission catalogued this circa-1908 Stier house for its 2014 Central Ridgewood report, it found the metal fence and gate around the front areaway to be original. The front keeps its full-height curved bay and egg-and-dart cornice, while the basement lintels had been turned into one continuous painted band. On the rear facade a historic wooden balcony survived.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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