70-03 60th Street

Ridgewood | built 1907

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

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1907
Paul Stier builds a flat-fronted row of shops with apartments above at 70-01 to 70-09 60th Street
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This two-story building belongs to a row that Paul Stier and Louis Berger & Company built in 1907, set apart from their usual curved-bay row houses by flat fronts and ground-floor stores. The designation report names the row among the Stier and Berger buildings that depart from their standard designs.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1910
Louis Berger, architect of this row, becomes secretary-treasurer of Bauer & Stier, Inc.
Berger, born in Rheinpfalz in 1875, came to America as a boy, settled in Ridgewood in 1892, studied at Pratt Institute and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings before opening his own office in Bushwick in 1895. When Paul Stier and August Bauer formed Bauer & Stier, Inc. in 1910, Berger served as its resident architect and secretary-treasurer. He was the architect of record for more than 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings through 1930.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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