933 Onderdonk Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1911

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.

1864
Farmer Joachim Meyerrose buys the Woodard estate land where this row was later built
Before the row houses, this block between Onderdonk and Forest Avenues was farmland. Joachim Meyerrose, a Bremen native who had settled in Newtown in 1844, bought nine acres from the Debevoise farm in 1854; ten years later he expanded by buying Woodard estate acreage on the far side of Forest Avenue, which took in the two blocks framed by Forest, Catalpa and Onderdonk Avenues and 70th Avenue. He and his sons farmed it into the late 19th century.
“Ten years later, he greatly enlarged his farm by purchasing additional land west of Forest Avenue from the Woodard estate…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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