60-96 69th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1909
Paul Stier puts up 60-96 69th Avenue as one of 23 two-family row houses
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Filed under permit NB 2622-1909, this Renaissance Revival house was designed by Louis Berger & Company for builder and original owner Paul Stier. It is one of 23 two-family row houses running from 60-56 to 60-98 69th Avenue, two stories over a basement, with a full-height curved bay and rough-faced brick panels. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed it, the metal fence and gate around its areaway were still the originals.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Paul Stier reaches the peak of a building spree that produced 392 buildings in three years
This house dates from Paul Stier's busiest stretch: of the 481 buildings he eventually erected inside what is now the Central Ridgewood Historic District, 392 went up between 1907 and 1909. He grew into Ridgewood's biggest single developer and ranked among the largest building operators in New York City. From 1910 on he worked in partnership with August Bauer, and a short street in the district carries the name Stier Place.
“His most active years were from 1907 to 1909, when he built 392 of the 481 buildings that he eventually developed…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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