66-42 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
66-42 Forest Avenue is built as a three-bay store-and-flats building with an angled bay
Louis Allmendinger designed 66-42 Forest Avenue for G. X. Mathews with three bays of buff brick on an amber-brick base, the third bay angled back. The apartment door, in the first bay, has a carved wood surround and transom, and a grey cornice with swags caps the front. At the back, a three-bay, one-story addition faces a concrete-paved yard.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1918
January 23
A city housing official recommends Mathews flats like 66-42 for wartime shipyard workers
On January 23, 1918, a commissioner of the Tenement House Department wrote to J. Rogers Flannery, Director of Housing, proposing Mathews Model Flats to ease the housing shortage for U.S. Government shipyard employees. The letter noted that both the Mathews Company and other Queens builders had taken up the model as a standard.
“…recommended “Mathews Model Flats” to J. Rogers Flannery, Director of Housing as a solution to the shortage of housing for U.S. Government shipyard employees…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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