70-02 60th Lane

Ridgewood | built 1910

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.

1907
Paul Stier is credited with the three-story corner apartment house at 70th Avenue
This three-story brick and stone apartment building on the southwest corner of 70th Avenue dates to about 1907. The Landmarks Preservation Commission attributes it to builder Paul Stier and the architects Louis Berger & Company, who developed most of this block with houses carrying matching detail. Its ground-floor store was later removed and the first story refaced in applied formstone, but the pressed metal cornice with swags, modillions and egg-and-dart moldings survives.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
German-born Paul Stier, the district's most prolific builder, starts developing the area in 1907
Paul Stier, born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1874, came to America alone as a teenager in 1891 and trained as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo before moving to the Ridgewood area in 1902. He launched heavy building in this part of Ridgewood in 1907, and between 1907 and 1909 he erected 392 of the 481 buildings he would put up inside today's historic district. Stier Place, a short street in the district, carries his name.
“His most active years were from 1907 to 1909, when he built 392 of the 481 buildings…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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