69-20 Forest Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1901

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.

1912
Jacob Erbach builds a three-story flats building at 69-20 Forest Avenue to plans by Louis Berger & Company
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Around 1912 owner Jacob Erbach put up this flats building under New Building permit 823-1912. Louis Berger & Company designed it in the Renaissance Revival style, three stories over a basement, in buff iron-spot brick with brownstone and limestone trim, a full-height rounded bay and a modillioned cornice. The south side is finished like the front, with the cornice carried around the corner, and the building keeps its historic front door and an original areaway gate.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1914
A one-story buff-brick garage stands behind 69-20 Forest Avenue by the time of the 1914 Sanborn map
A small garage was already on the lot behind the flats building by 1914, when it appears on that year's Sanborn insurance map. The one-story structure is faced in buff brick and has an iron lintel decorated with rosettes and a patterned-brick cornice on its south side. Its east wall is parged and has a door with what may be its historic door and transom sash, beside two windows now fitted with replacement sashes and grilles.
“One-story garage, faced in buff brick, constructed by 1914, according to Sanborn map of that year; iron lintel with rosettes…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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