From the NY Times: The New York City Landmarks Preservation
Commission gave landmark status to 100 middle-class residential
buildings in Queens and on Staten Island on Tuesday, citing
their distinctive architecture and important role in the
historical arc of the evolution of the city’s housing. The bulk
of these buildings, 96, are modest century-old three-story
buildings in the Ridgewood North Historic District in Queens.
The other four are row houses on Horton’s Row in the
Tompkinsville section of Staten Island, part of an original
stretch of 12 row houses built from 1880 to 1882. The Ridgewood
buildings, which have six apartments each, are technically
considered tenements, which typically were buildings with only
one or two bathrooms per floor. However, they represent the
middle-class aspiration of the early 20th century. Built between
1908 and 1914 by the G. X. Mathews Company, the Ridgewood
buildings were more spacious and well lighted than much of the
dark, cramped housing of the 19th century. Each apart