68-41 Forest Avenue

also 59-01 Catalpa Avenue | Ridgewood | built 1930

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.

1908
Builders Charles Fritz and Joseph Barudio put up a corner tenement row on Catalpa Avenue
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This three-story flats building at the corner of Catalpa Avenue is the first of a row of tenements, 59-01 to 59-11 Catalpa Avenue, built in 1908 by Fritz & Barudio and designed by Louis Berger & Company. Charles Fritz, a German-born builder who started in 1895, built many multiple dwellings in Ridgewood, at times with fellow German Joseph Barudio. The report calls the row more ornate than most of Berger's designs in the district.
“Fritz & Barudio built the row of tenements at 59-01 to 59-11 Catalpa Avenue (1908), which were designed by Louis Berger & Company…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Carved faces look out from the window keystones of a rusticated brick flats building
The building is faced in rusticated iron-spot brick with limestone sill courses, and the window lintels on the second and third stories have large keystones carved with masks. A classical hood on brackets marks the main entrance, and the metal cornice is decorated with wreaths, festoons and egg-and-dart molding. A storefront on the south side was removed after 1940 and filled in with tan brick and two windows.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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