66-38 Forest Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1911

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.

1911
66-38 Forest Avenue goes up with two shopfronts flanking a central apartment door
Built in 1911 to Louis Allmendinger's design, 66-38 Forest Avenue has a five-bay buff-brick front with recessed angled bays, carved limestone lintels and a cornice with swags. The apartment entrance sits in the center bay inside a carved wood surround with a transom, with a store on either side. Later owners added aluminum windows, new shopfronts and awnings, and fixed three mailboxes and an air conditioner to one storefront.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1915
The city's Tenement House Department holds up Mathews Model Flats like 66-38 as a housing model
In 1915 the New York City Tenement House Department picked the Mathews Model Flats, the type built along this row of Forest Avenue, as the most up-to-date way to house working people at the lowest cost. Other builders soon began copying the design.
“In 1915, the Tenement House Department of New York City selected the “Mathews Model Flats”…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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