Ridgewood queens

Throughout its history, Ridgewood, Queens has been defined by both its close proximity to Bushwick and its desire to separate itself from it. In the 17th and 18th century, the area was mostly inhabited by Dutch farmers. Later a century long border dispute between Bushwick and Newton—a larger region that included Ridgewood as we know it today—which was resolved eventually by the townspeople placing several boulders on the border with “N” and “B” labels. The Ridgewood area was named after the…

From the El station

The Queens neighborhood took one of the spots in our survey of 20,000 city-dwellers and local experts.

Mathews Model Flats (1913) Architect: R. George Smart 1859–65 Madison St. Ridgewood, Queens Gustave X. Mathews (1871–1958) built similar developments in Long Island City, Woodside, and Elmhurst. His buildings are characteristically faced with Kreischerville yellow brick from Staten Island. The basic design was exhibited at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. © Matthew X. Kiernan NYBAI13-5710

Optimo Cigars sign, in Ridgewood, Queens, New York City

Ridgewood was fast developing in the spring of 1908, as more houses began sprouting up across the once-rural landscape. As more residents moved into the area,

Looking under the tracks of the M line at the intersection of Palmetto Street and Onderdonk Avenue in Ridgewood, Queens.

More than 130 years ago, in March 1882, the Ridgewood area was seeing an increased demand for building lots for residential housing and also for land for

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United Presbyterian Church of Ridgewood - Ridgewood (Queens), NY