60-98 70th Avenue

also 70-02 Fresh Pond Road | Ridgewood | built 1909

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 caps the 70th Avenue row with a corner building of stores and apartments
At the Fresh Pond Road corner, Paul Stier built a three-story building with stores below and apartments above in 1909 (permit NB 3603-1909), designed by Louis Berger & Company. The four-bay brick front has projecting sills, stone lintels and rough-faced stone bands running at the level of the sills and the upper sash. A bracketed pressed-metal cornice trimmed with swags and egg-and-dart moldings crowns the building.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
The corner building's ground floor gets a new front, recorded in photographs by 1940
The Landmarks Preservation Commission judged the present first-story facade of 70-02 Fresh Pond Road, rusticated stone with rosette-trimmed pilasters and a frieze of metopes and rosettes, to be possibly an early alteration of significance, since photographs show it in place by 1940, though later modified. The building's one-story brick garage was later converted into commercial space, and the east facade got replacement storefronts, small windows cut into the brick and a wrought-iron fire escape.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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