66-44 Forest Avenue

also 2037 Woodbine Street | Ridgewood | built 1911

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

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1911
The corner flats at 66-44 Forest Avenue open onto Woodbine Street through a limestone portico
At the corner of Woodbine Street, 66-44 Forest Avenue shows a three-bay front to Forest Avenue and a longer eight-bay side to Woodbine Street, where the apartment entrance has a carved limestone portico and paired wood-and-glass doors. Two original metal fire escapes, bluestone quoins and an off-white cornice with swags survive. A door in the seventh bay was later bricked in and fitted with an air conditioner.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Corner flats like 66-44 Forest Avenue trade a sitting room for a second bedroom
Mathews Model Flats normally relied on two light shafts, giving each apartment a living room, dining room, bedroom, sitting room and kitchen plus a bath. Corner buildings in the district dropped the second shaft, so their plans replaced the sitting room with a second bedroom.
“The plans of the corner buildings were modified due to the elimination of the second light shaft…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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