70-01 60th Street

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.

1906
Paul Stier, builder of this corner apartment house, buys Debevoise farm land in Ridgewood
In 1906 Paul Stier bought much of the old Debevoise farm north of Myrtle Avenue, between today's 60th Street and Fresh Pond Road, and started building on it in 1907. Born in Mecklenberg in 1874, he arrived alone in 1891, apprenticed as a mason in Buffalo and came to Ridgewood in 1902. He erected 481 buildings in what became the historic district, 392 of them between 1907 and 1909, and Stier Place carries his name.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
Paul Stier builds a three-story corner apartment house at 60th Street and 70th Avenue
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Permit NB 1460-1907 records this three-story brick and stone apartment building, raised for the developer Paul Stier and designed by Louis Berger & Company. Its facade carries a foliated cast-iron column, rough-faced stone lintels, bands of rough-faced brick, and a swagged pressed-metal cornice trimmed with egg-and-dart moldings. Its first story was later filled in with brick, and an original secondary shop entrance and show window on the north side were bricked in.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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