66-63 Forest Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1914

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1914

    Joseph Meyerrose adds a small row of stores and apartments on his family's Forest Avenue land

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    Joseph Meyerrose, whose family had farmed in Ridgewood since the 1850s, built a large brick house for himself at 66-75 Forest Avenue in 1906 and soon began developing more of the property around it. In 1914 he had Louis Berger & Company design three small rows at 66-63 to 66-69 Forest Avenue. This two-story store-and-apartment building was filed under NB 3095-1914; its brick facade, dogtooth brick course and bracketed cornice survive above a newer storefront.

    “Later, he built three small rows of buildings at 66-63 to 66-69 Forest (1914) and 59-12 to 59-16 Madison Street (1913)…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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