66-28 Forest Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1910

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.

1910
Louis Allmendinger gives 66-28 Forest Avenue angled bays above two shopfronts
Part of a four-building group filed in 1910 for developer G. X. Mathews, 66-28 Forest Avenue has a five-bay front of buff brick over an amber-brick base, with recessed angled bays, carved limestone lintels and a grey cornice trimmed with swags. A piece of the original storefront cornice still survives over the entrance, while vinyl windows and new shopfronts with roll gates and awnings came later.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1910
Brooklyn-born architect Louis Allmendinger designs the Mathews flats on Forest Avenue
Permits filed later in 1910 name Louis Allmendinger as designer of the Mathews buildings on the southwest side of Forest Avenue. The son of a German-immigrant brewer, born in Brooklyn in 1878 and trained at the Cooper Union, he kept offices in Bushwick. He later designed Brooklyn's Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, and with partner M. Allen Schlendorf the J. Kurtz & Sons store in Queens.
“…buildings located on the southeast side of Palmetto Street, the southwest side of Forest Avenue and the northwest side of Woodbine Street (Figure 14) were designed by architect Louis Allmendinger…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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