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Ridgewood, Queens

February 15, 2024

Ridgewood is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It borders the Queens neighborhoods of Maspeth to the north, Middle Village to the east, and Glendale to the southeast, as well as the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bushwick to the southwest and East Williamsburg to the west. Historically, the neighborhood straddled the Queens-Brooklyn boundary.

Ridgewood
Neighborhood of Queens
Myrtle Avenue's Business Improvement District runs from Wyckoff Avenue to Fresh Pond Road in Ridgewood where the elevated Bay Ridge Branch of the LIRR crosses over Myrtle Avenue and serves as a border between Ridgewood and the neighboring "lower" portion of Glendale.
Location within New York City
Coordinates: 40°42′17″N 73°54′07″W / 40.70472°N 73.90194°W / 40.70472; -73.90194
Country United States
State New York
CityNew York City
County/BoroughQueens
Community DistrictQueens 5[1]
Population
 (2010)[2]
 • Total69,317
Ethnicity
[3]
 • Hispanic49.0%
 • White39.8%
 • Asian7.7%
 • Black2.0%
 • Other/Multiracial1.5%
Economics
[4][5]
 • Median income$42,049
Time zoneUTC−05:00 (EST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−04:00 (EDT)
ZIP Code
11385
Area codes718, 347, 929, and 917

The etymology of Ridgewood's name is disputed, but it may have referred to Ridgewood Reservoir, the local geography, or a road. The British settled Ridgewood in the 17th century, while the Dutch settled nearby Bushwick. The adjacent settlements led to decades of disputes over the boundary, which later became the border between Queens and Brooklyn. Bushwick was developed rapidly in the 19th century, but Ridgewood remained sparsely populated until the early 20th century, when rowhouses were built for its rapidly growing, predominantly German population. Ridgewood has become more ethnically diverse since the mid-20th century. Large parts of the neighborhood are national and city historic districts.

Ridgewood is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 104th Precinct.[6] It is represented by the New York City Council's 30th District.[7]

Etymology edit

The origin of the neighborhood's name is disputed. One theory is that it came from the Ridgewood Reservoir in Highland Park, in Brooklyn just south of Ridgewood. The reservoir was on a high ridge in the middle of the Harbor Hill Moraine, a terminal moraine that runs the length of Long Island.[8][9] Another possible etymology is the forests that covered the area before colonial settlement, and that early English settlers called the moraine the "ridge" of Long Island. Yet another possible etymology is "Ridge Road".[9]

The name was originally applied by the government of Kings County (now coextensive with Brooklyn), and referred to an area within Brooklyn along the border between Kings and Queens Counties. In the early 20th century, developers gave the area various names, including Germania Heights, St. James Park, Ridgewood Heights, Wyckoff Heights, and Knickerbocker Heights, but only "Ridgewood" gained enough popularity past the 1910s.[9]

History edit

Early settlement edit

Ridgewood is adjacent to Bushwick, Brooklyn, and the two neighborhoods have similar histories. Both were initially settled by the Lenape Native Americans, specifically the Mespachtes tribe (for whom the adjacent neighborhood of Maspeth is named).[8][10] In 1638, the Dutch West India Company secured a deed from the Lenape; subsequently, Peter Stuyvesant chartered present-day Bushwick in 1661 under the name Boswijck, meaning "neighborhood in the woods" in 17th-century Dutch.[11]: 171 [12][13] Likewise, Ridgewood was part of Newtown, one of the three initial towns in Queens, and was settled by the British.[9]

In both neighborhoods, British and Dutch families tilled farms and grew crops for Brooklyn's and Manhattan's markets. Many of these farms also had slaves.[11]: 1001 [14][15]: 48  The only known remaining Dutch farmhouse in the neighborhood is the Onderdonk House, which was erected in 1709.[16] Also at the Onderdonk House site is Arbitration Rock, a marker for the disputed boundary between Bushwick and Newtown, and by extension Brooklyn and Queens (see § Border with Bushwick).[17][18] The land remained rural through the American Revolutionary War, though there may have been a burial ground in the area.[14] Ridgewood's oldest streets are Myrtle Avenue, Metropolitan Avenue, and Fresh Pond Road, which were used by farmers to take their goods to markets.[19] Fresh Pond Road was formerly a Native American trail; the other roads were laid out as plank roads in the early to mid-19th century.[10]

19th-century development edit

The development of public transportation, starting with horse-drawn cars in the mid-19th century and later succeeded by trolleys and elevated trains, helped to spur residential and retail development.[20] The first transit line to arrive in the neighborhood was the Myrtle Avenue horsecar, which was extended to Brooklyn's Broadway in 1855.[14][21] Following this, the Bay Ridge Branch opened in 1878, connecting to Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach, and the Brooklyn shorefront via the Manhattan Beach Railroad.[19][22] The Myrtle Avenue elevated railroad, running above Myrtle Avenue within Brooklyn, was extended to the Queens border in 1889.[23][24] An electric trolley line through Ridgewood, running to Lutheran Cemetery, was opened along a private right-of-way in 1894. Ten years later, the Myrtle Avenue Elevated was extended on a ground level alignment over that trolley line.[19] The current elevated structure would be erected along the Lutheran Cemetery line's right-of-way in 1915.[25]

Simultaneously, northern Brooklyn was seeing an increase in the number of German immigrants.[14] Many of the city's German immigrants had originally settled in Manhattan's Little Germany, located mostly within the East Village and Lower East Side, in the mid-19th century.[26] By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, German immigrants had moved to other enclaves such as Yorkville, Manhattan; Steinway, Queens; and the north Brooklyn/Ridgewood area.[27] The discovery of freshwater under northern Brooklyn resulted in the development of breweries, where many Germans worked.[14] By 1880, there were 35 breweries in Brooklyn, including a 14-block "brewer's row" within Bushwick that contained at least 11 breweries.[21][19] Factories and knitting mills were also opened within the communities, and speculative German developers built houses, consisting mostly of multi-family stock that were three or four stories tall.[19] "Brewer's Row" had grown to 14 breweries by 1890.[28][29]

20th-century development edit

Residential construction edit

 
One of the rowhouse developments in Ridgewood, preserved as part of the Stockholm–DeKalb–Hart Historic District

Ridgewood remained rural until the unification of New York City's boroughs in 1898, even as Bushwick had become fully developed. Development in Ridgewood in the 19th century consisted mostly of picnicking locations, beer gardens, racetracks, and amusement areas for the residents of Bushwick. By the end of the century, developers had bought these sites and started constructing rowhouses and tenements, usually two to three stories high.[19][30] The Ridgewood Board of Trade, created in 1902, was organized to develop the streets and utilities, and to improve the transit infrastructure.[19][31]

Much of the housing stock was erected between 1905 and 1915.[32][33] Most of the houses built before 1905 were wood-frame houses; that year, a zoning ordinance was passed, requiring new buildings to be made of masonry.[19][34] The area was developed more quickly after the Queensboro Bridge opened in 1909, connecting Queens to Manhattan.[34] According to a 1909 issue of the Real Estate Record and Guide, development was concentrated in a 150-block area around East Williamsburg in Brooklyn, namely the present-day area of Ridgewood.[30] More than five thousand buildings were built from the beginning of the 20th century to World War I's start in the mid-1910s. Residential construction predominated in the southern part of Ridgewood while industrial factories and mills were prevalent in the northern section, near Newtown Creek.[34]

Construction slowed down during World War I, but resumed shortly after the war's end, and by the 1930s the last farmland in Ridgewood had been developed. Some of the later houses were single-family homes with garages.[34][35] Two of the more drastic changes to Ridgewood's character in the 1920s were the implementation of a street numbering system across Queens in 1925,[36] followed by the opening of the Canarsie subway on the neighborhood's southern border in 1928.[37][38]

Ethnic changes edit

Ridgewood was among New York City's most quickly-developing neighborhoods between at least 1906[39][40] and 1911.[39][41] Much of the new housing was originally settled by Germans, who had mostly moved from other neighborhoods such as Williamsburg. To the German newcomers, the modern and more expansive houses in Ridgewood provided an improvement over the cramped housing stock in their former neighborhoods.[39] A 1913 Real Estate Record article stated that, for several years, Germans had been moving to Ridgewood from the city's other boroughs.[42] Figures from the 1910 United States Census indicated that much of Ridgewood's population was working-class and of German or Eastern European descent, and many homes were owner-occupied.[36][43][44] Ridgewood's German population was so large that the Ridgewood Times' first issue in 1908 was published in both English and German.[45]

After World War I, the population expanded with an influx of Gottscheers, an ethnic German population from Slovenia who were dislocated in the aftermath of World War I, and spoke the Gottscheerish dialect.[45] Other Eastern Europeans came as well. As recorded in the 1920 United States Census, the population of Ridgewood was mostly working-class homeowners from Germany, Austria, or Italy, with a smaller population from Hungary, Ireland, Poland, and Sweden.[36][43][44][46] The demographic figures remained relatively unchanged through the 1930 United States Census.[36][46] The large German presence led to disputes following the rise of Nazi Germany, and a large, 9,000-person boycott of Nazi Germany in April 1934 resulted in brawls between Nazi sympathizers and about 200 Communists, members of the Anti-Fascist League of Brooklyn, as well as several hundred members of the Blue Shirt Minutemen of Brownsville and members of the Jewish War Veterans League.[47] Still, in the 1939 WPA Guide to New York City, workers for the Federal Writers' Project described Ridgewood and Bushwick as "old-fashioned and respectable", and said that Ridgewood "rivals Manhattan's Yorkville as a German center."[48]

By the 1940 United States Census, Southern Europeans were also recorded as having moved into Ridgewood.[36] In the mid-20th century, Romanians, Serbs, and Puerto Ricans arrived. By the late 20th century, Poles, Dominicans,[49][50][51] and Ecuadorians—including a significant population of Quechua-speaking Amerindians from the Imbabura and Cañar provinces of Ecuador—had moved to Ridgewood.[52] Other large populations included Yugoslavians, Chinese, Koreans, and Slovenians.[53][54]

Late 20th century edit

Originally, Ridgewood and Glendale shared ZIP Code 11227 with Bushwick. Following the 1977 blackout, the communities of Ridgewood and Glendale expressed a desire to disassociate themselves from Bushwick.[55] Residents voted on a proposal to create a new ZIP Code, and a majority of votes were cast in favor of the proposal.[56] The communities were given the ZIP Code 11385 in 1980.[57]

By the mid-1980s, parts of Ridgewood had been given federal landmark designations. Young professionals were also moving to the neighborhood in large numbers, and Ridgewood's homeownership rates increased.[58]

Demographics edit

Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the population of Ridgewood was 69,317, a decrease of 138 (0.2%) from the 69,455 counted in 2000. Covering an area of 1,156.31 acres (467.94 ha), the neighborhood had a population density of 59.9/acre (38,300/sq mi; 14,800/km2).[2]

The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 39.8% (27,558) White, 2.0% (1,380) African American, 0.1% (93) Native American, 7.7% (5,331) Asian, 0.0% (19) Pacific Islander, 0.3% (204) from other races, and 1.1% (765) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 49.0% (33,967) of the population.[3] The entirety of Community Board 5, which comprises Maspeth, Ridgewood, Middle Village, and Glendale, had 166,924 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 81.4 years.[59]: 2, 20  This is about equal to the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.[60]: 53 (PDF p. 84) [61] Most inhabitants are youth and middle-aged adults: 22% are between the ages of 0–17, 31% between 25 and 44, and 26% between 45 and 64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 8% and 13% respectively.[59]: 2 

As of 2017, the median household income in Community Board 5 was $71,234.[62] In 2018, an estimated 19% of Ridgewood and Maspeth residents lived in poverty, compared to 19% in all of Queens and 20% in all of New York City. One in seventeen residents (6%) were unemployed, compared to 8% in Queens and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 46% in Ridgewood and Maspeth, lower than the boroughwide and citywide rates of 53% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, as of 2018, Maspeth, Ridgewood, Middle Village, and Glendale are considered to be high-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying.[59]: 7 

Land use and terrain edit

 
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church

Ridgewood is zoned for various land uses, but is mostly commercial along main streets and residential alongside streets. Large parts of the neighborhood are residential historic districts. In addition, the large Cemetery Belt is located directly to the south.[63]

The majority of the neighborhood covers a large hill, part of the glacial moraine that created Long Island, which starts at Metropolitan Avenue, rises steeply for about two blocks, then slopes down gently. For instance, at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Parish on 60th Place, the front entrance of the church is almost level with the second floor of the Parish school next door.[citation needed] Part of Ridgewood around the Linden Hill Cemetery, centered around Flushing and Metropolitan Avenues, was once known as Linden Hill, distinct from the neighborhood of Linden Hill in Flushing, Queens. Linden Street is named after this subsection of Ridgewood.[64]

Residential edit

 
A typical block in Ridgewood

Ridgewood is a densely settled neighborhood, with housing stock ranging from six-family buildings near the Brooklyn border to two-family and single-family row houses deeper into Queens.[63] Ridgewood is visually distinguished by the large amount of yellow face brick construction, which is characteristic of the early-20th-century rowhouses built in the neighborhoods.[65][66][67][68]

Most of Ridgewood was developed block-by-block around the turn of the 20th century. Most of the buildings were designed by local architect Louis Berger & Co., which designed more than 5,000 buildings in the area.[69] The neighborhood has been largely untouched by construction since then, leaving many centrally planned blocks of houses and tenements still in the same state as their construction. These blocks include the Mathews Flats (six-family cold water tenements), Ring-Gibson Houses (two- and four-family houses with stores), and Stier Houses (curved two-family rowhouses). Many of these houses are well-kept and retain much of their early 20th century appeal.[70]

Commercial edit

 
Ridgewood Savings Bank headquarters since 1929, located in Ridgewood

There are low-density commercial districts along Myrtle, Forest, and Metropolitan Avenues and Fresh Pond Road.[63]

Ridgewood is home to Ridgewood Savings Bank, the largest mutual savings bank in New York State. Their headquarters is located at the intersection of Myrtle and Forest Avenues and was built in 1929. The building architects were Halsey, McCormack and Helmer, Inc. and the general contractors were Stamarith Construction Corporation.[71] The building's exterior is made of limestone and contains an eight-foot granite base. The interior has travertine walls and marble floors.

Landmarks edit

Historic districts edit

In Ridgewood 10 national historic districts were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[72]

 
Map of New York City Historic Districts in Ridgewood

In addition, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated four landmark districts in Ridgewood:

  • Stockholm Street Historic District, designated 2000. This historic district consists of 36 two-story brick rowhouses, two garages, and a stable built primarily in 1907-1910 by Joseph Weiss & Company along Stockholm Street, the only remaining brick street in Ridgewood.[65]
  • Ridgewood North Historic District, designated 2009. This historic district includes 96 buildings, mostly three-story brick rowhouses called "Mathews Model Flats", built in 1908-1914 by the G.X. Mathews Company.[66]
  • Ridgewood South Historic District, designated 2010. This historic district includes 210 buildings, a large collection of three-story brick rowhouses as well as the St. Matthias Roman Catholic Church, built in 1911-1912 by the G.X. Mathews Company.[67]
  • Central Ridgewood Historic District, designated 2014. This historic district includes 990 buildings, mostly brick rowhouses, constructed in 1906-1915 by various small builders.[68]

Individual landmarks edit

There are two individual city-designated landmarks:

  • The Vander Ende-Onderdonk House, built in the mid-to-late 18th century and designated in 1995.[73] The house was a crucial point in the 1769 survey that established the Kings–Queens county border.[17]
  • The Ridgewood Theater Building was built 1916 and designated in 2010.[74] The 1,950 seat William Fox moviehouse operated until 2008[75] and is now a Blink Fitness.

The Vander Ende-Onderdonk House, the Evergreens Cemetery, and St. Matthias Roman Catholic Church Complex are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[72][76]

Police and crime edit

Maspeth, Ridgewood, Middle Village, and Glendale are patrolled by the 104th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 64-02 Catalpa Avenue.[6] The 104th Precinct ranked 21st safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. However, the precinct covers a large diamond-shaped area, and Maspeth and Middle Village are generally seen as safer than Ridgewood.[77] As of 2018, with a non-fatal assault rate of 19 per 100,000 people, Ridgewood and Maspeth's rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 235 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole.[59]: 8 

The 104th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 87.4% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 2 murders, 17 rapes, 140 robberies, 168 felony assaults, 214 burglaries, 531 grand larcenies, and 123 grand larcenies auto in 2018.[78]

Fire safety edit

 
Engine Co. 291/Ladder Co. 40

Ridgewood contains a New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire station, Engine Co. 291/Ladder Co. 140, at 56-07 Metropolitan Avenue.[79][80]

Health edit

As of 2018, preterm births and births to teenage mothers are less common in Ridgewood and Maspeth than in other places citywide. In Ridgewood and Maspeth, there were 70 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 17.6 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).[59]: 11  Ridgewood and Maspeth have a low population of residents who are uninsured. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 13%, slightly higher than the citywide rate of 12%.[59]: 14 

The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Ridgewood and Maspeth is 0.008 mg/m3 (8.0×10−9 oz/cu ft), more than the city average.[59]: 9  Twenty percent of Ridgewood and Maspeth residents are smokers, which is higher than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.[59]: 13  In Ridgewood and Maspeth, 19% of residents are obese, 7% are diabetic, and 20% have high blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 22%, 8%, and 23% respectively.[59]: 16  In addition, 19% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.[59]: 12 

Ninety-two percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is higher than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 78% of residents described their health as "good," "very good," or "excellent," equal to the city's average of 78%.[59]: 13  For every supermarket in Ridgewood and Maspeth, there are 5 bodegas.[59]: 10 

The nearest major hospitals are Elmhurst Hospital Center in Elmhurst[81] and the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Bushwick.

Post offices and ZIP Code edit

Ridgewood is covered by ZIP Code 11385, which it shares with neighboring Glendale.[82] The United States Post Office operates three post offices nearby:

  • Fresh Pond Station – 60-80 Woodbine Street[83]
  • Ridgewood Station – 60-60 Myrtle Avenue[84]
  • Wyckoff Heights Station – 86 Wyckoff Avenue[85]

Border with Bushwick edit

 
Arbitration Rock, where the county border was set in 1769

Today, Ridgewood's land area lies within Queens County. However, its political boundary with Brooklyn causes confusion and debate about where the western boundary of Ridgewood truly lies and whether part of Ridgewood is considered to be actually part of Brooklyn. The political dispute dates to the 17th century, when Newtown was under English rule and Boswijck was under Dutch rule. Disputes over the boundary between the two settlements continued until 1769, when a boundary line was drawn through what later became known as the Arbitration Rock.[17][86][87] The street grid plan in Ridgewood and Bushwick was laid out in the late 19th century. Because the Arbitration Rock lay along a diagonal with this grid plan, numerous houses were built on the Brooklyn-Queens boundary, their owners sometimes subject to taxes from both counties.[88][86] During the 19th century, this resulted in situations where some houses received water and fire protection from what was then the city of Brooklyn, while their neighbors in Queens had to rely on volunteer firefighting squads and paid exorbitant water bills to private utilities in Elmhurst.[88]

In 1925, the political boundary was adapted to the street grid, resulting in a zig-zag pattern.[86][87][a] The change resulted in 2,543 persons' addresses being reassigned from Queens to Brooklyn, and 135 persons' addresses reassigned from Brooklyn to Queens.[87] Modern addresses in the two boroughs can be distinguished by the presence or absence of a hyphen in the house number.[89] Queens's house numbering system uses a hyphen between the closest cross-street (which comes before the hyphen) and the actual address (which comes after the hyphen).[90] While buildings fronting on streets that are west of Forest Avenue and the Bay Ridge Branch follow the Queens address numbering system, the avenues which run parallel to the county line—bounded by Metropolitan Avenue to the north, Forest Avenue to the east, and the Brooklyn border to the south—do not follow this address numbering system. Streets in this area that run perpendicular to the county line are demarcated by a jump in numbering sequence between the two boroughs.[89]

ZIP Code changes edit

Since at least 1898, when the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens were created as part of the City of Greater New York, Glendale and Ridgewood's postal mail had been routed through the main Brooklyn post office in Williamsburg, rather than the main post office in Flushing, because they are located closer to Williamsburg.[91] When ZIP Codes were assigned in 1963, the neighborhoods were assigned Brooklyn ZIP Codes with the 112 prefix, along with all areas whose mail was routed through a Brooklyn post office.[91] This gave Glendale and Ridgewood a Brooklyn mailing address despite actually being located in Queens.[91] The neighborhoods' ZIP Code of 11227 was shared with Bushwick, Brooklyn, as well as with Wyckoff Heights on the border of the two boroughs. After the 1977 New York City blackout, newspapers around the country published UPI and Associated Press' photos of Bushwick residents with stolen items and a police officer beating a suspected looter, and Bushwick became known for riots and looting.[92] Afterward, the communities of Ridgewood and Glendale expressed a desire to disassociate themselves from Bushwick.[55]

Following complaints from residents, Postmaster General William Bolger proposed that the ZIP Codes would be changed if United States Representative Geraldine Ferraro could produce evidence that 70% of residents supported it.[91][93] After Ferraro's office distributed ballots to residents, 93 percent of the returned ballots voted for the change.[56] The change to ZIP Code 11385 was made effective January 13, 1980.[57]

Newspaper edit

The Ridgewood Times, established in 1908 and now known as the Times Newsweekly, serves as the community newspaper.[94] It is published in English and was formerly published in German as well.[45]

The Ridgewood Post is an online version of the community newspaper. It is a part of the Queens Post group, a subsidiary of Outer Boro Media, which publishes seven local news sites in Queens and one in North Brooklyn.

Education edit

Ridgewood and Maspeth generally have a lower rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018. While 33% of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher, 16% have less than a high school education and 50% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 39% of Queens residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher.[59]: 6  The percentage of Ridgewood and Maspeth students excelling in math rose from 36% in 2000 to 67% in 2011, and reading achievement rose from 42% to 49% during the same time period.[95]

Ridgewood and Maspeth's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is less than the rest of New York City. In Ridgewood and Maspeth, 14% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, lower than the citywide average of 20%.[60]: 24 (PDF p. 55) [59]: 6  Additionally, 82% of high school students in Ridgewood and Maspeth graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%.[59]: 6 

Schools edit

Ridgewood's public schools are operated by the New York City Department of Education. Ridgewood contains the following public elementary schools, which serve grades PK-5 unless otherwise indicated:

The following middle schools are located in Ridgewood:

Grover Cleveland High School is the only high school in Ridgewood, and is the zoned public high school to most of Ridgewood.[104]

There are two Catholic grammar schools located in the neighborhood. The first one is the Notre Dame Catholic Academy (formerly known as Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal School) located on Bleecker and 61st Streets. The second one is St. Matthias Catholic Academy located on Catalpa Avenue between Onderdonk and Woodward Avenues.

Libraries edit

The Queens Public Library's Ridgewood branch is located at 20-12 Madison Street.[105]

The Brooklyn Public Library's Washington Irving branch is located at 360 Irving Avenue near Woodbine Street, just across Ridgewood's border with Bushwick.[106] The Queens and Brooklyn Public Libraries are separate library systems and are not interchangeable.[107]

Transportation edit

The New York City Subway's BMT Myrtle Avenue Line (M train) runs through the heart of Ridgewood with stops at Seneca Avenue, Forest Avenue, and Fresh Pond Road. Additionally, the Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues station, in the southern portion of Ridgewood, is a transportation hub serving the Myrtle Avenue Line, the BMT Canarsie Line (L train), and several buses.[108] At the end of the Myrtle Avenue Line is the Fresh Pond Yard, a storage yard for the M train. Halsey Street (L train) has entrances in both Ridgewood and Bushwick.[109]

The Ridgewood Terminal at the Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues station serves New York City Bus' B13, B26, B52, B54, Q55 and Q58 lines. The B20, B38, B57, Q39, Q54 and Q67 bus lines also serve Ridgewood.[110] In addition, the neighborhood is home to the large Fresh Pond Bus Depot, which services many of the buses that run throughout Brooklyn and Queens.

Parks and recreation edit

 
Ridgewood Veterans Triangle

The Ridgewood Park baseball ground, built on land owned by William Wallace,[111] was part of a larger entertainment area bounded by Wyckoff Avenue, Covert Street, Halsey Street, and Irving Avenue. From 1886 to 1889, it was home to the Brooklyn Bridegrooms (later the Brooklyn Dodgers and now the Los Angeles Dodgers) for their Sunday games.[112] The property continued to operate until 1959.[113] Another similarly named site, called Grauer's Ridgewood Park, was located between Myrtle Avenue, Cypress Avenue, Seneca Avenue, and Decatur Street, and was used mainly as a picnic site.[114][115]

Mafera Park, named after former Queens borough president Joseph F. Mafera, is located south of the Fresh Pond Junction, between the Myrtle Avenue elevated line to the west and the Bay Ridge Branch to the east.[116]

Notable people edit

See also: Category:People from Ridgewood, Queens

Notable current and former residents of Ridgewood include:

In popular culture edit

  • Parquet Courts' 2013 song "Stoned and Starving" includes the lyric "I was walking through Ridgewood, Queens".[132]

References edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Traveling south from the Newtown Creek, the border traveled on the following streets:
    • Southeast onto Onderdonk Avenue
    • Southwest onto Flushing Avenue
    • Southeast onto Cypress Avenue
    • Southwest onto Grove Street
    • Southeast onto St. Nicholas Avenue
    • Southwest onto Palmetto Street
    • Southeast onto Wyckoff Avenue
    • Southwest onto Covert Street
    • Southeast onto Irving Avenue
    The border then entered Most Holy Trinity Cemetery and the Cemetery of the Evergreens.[87]

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Ridgewood is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens It borders the Queens neighborhoods of Maspeth to the north Middle Village to the east and Glendale to the southeast as well as the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bushwick to the southwest and East Williamsburg to the west Historically the neighborhood straddled the Queens Brooklyn boundary RidgewoodNeighborhood of QueensMyrtle Avenue s Business Improvement District runs from Wyckoff Avenue to Fresh Pond Road in Ridgewood where the elevated Bay Ridge Branch of the LIRR crosses over Myrtle Avenue and serves as a border between Ridgewood and the neighboring lower portion of Glendale Location within New York CityCoordinates 40 42 17 N 73 54 07 W 40 70472 N 73 90194 W 40 70472 73 90194Country United StatesState New YorkCityNew York CityCounty BoroughQueensCommunity DistrictQueens 5 1 Population 2010 2 Total69 317Ethnicity 3 Hispanic49 0 White39 8 Asian7 7 Black2 0 Other Multiracial1 5 Economics 4 5 Median income 42 049Time zoneUTC 05 00 EST Summer DST UTC 04 00 EDT ZIP Code11385Area codes718 347 929 and 917The etymology of Ridgewood s name is disputed but it may have referred to Ridgewood Reservoir the local geography or a road The British settled Ridgewood in the 17th century while the Dutch settled nearby Bushwick The adjacent settlements led to decades of disputes over the boundary which later became the border between Queens and Brooklyn Bushwick was developed rapidly in the 19th century but Ridgewood remained sparsely populated until the early 20th century when rowhouses were built for its rapidly growing predominantly German population Ridgewood has become more ethnically diverse since the mid 20th century Large parts of the neighborhood are national and city historic districts Ridgewood is patrolled by the New York City Police Department s 104th Precinct 6 It is represented by the New York City Council s 30th District 7 Contents 1 Etymology 2 History 2 1 Early settlement 2 2 19th century development 2 3 20th century development 2 3 1 Residential construction 2 3 2 Ethnic changes 2 4 Late 20th century 3 Demographics 4 Land use and terrain 4 1 Residential 4 2 Commercial 4 3 Landmarks 4 3 1 Historic districts 4 3 2 Individual landmarks 5 Police and crime 6 Fire safety 7 Health 8 Post offices and ZIP Code 8 1 Border with Bushwick 8 2 ZIP Code changes 9 Newspaper 10 Education 10 1 Schools 10 2 Libraries 11 Transportation 12 Parks and recreation 13 Notable people 14 In popular culture 15 References 15 1 Notes 15 2 Citations 15 3 Bibliography 15 4 Further readingEtymology editThe origin of the neighborhood s name is disputed One theory is that it came from the Ridgewood Reservoir in Highland Park in Brooklyn just south of Ridgewood The reservoir was on a high ridge in the middle of the Harbor Hill Moraine a terminal moraine that runs the length of Long Island 8 9 Another possible etymology is the forests that covered the area before colonial settlement and that early English settlers called the moraine the ridge of Long Island Yet another possible etymology is Ridge Road 9 The name was originally applied by the government of Kings County now coextensive with Brooklyn and referred to an area within Brooklyn along the border between Kings and Queens Counties In the early 20th century developers gave the area various names including Germania Heights St James Park Ridgewood Heights Wyckoff Heights and Knickerbocker Heights but only Ridgewood gained enough popularity past the 1910s 9 History editEarly settlement edit Ridgewood is adjacent to Bushwick Brooklyn and the two neighborhoods have similar histories Both were initially settled by the Lenape Native Americans specifically the Mespachtes tribe for whom the adjacent neighborhood of Maspeth is named 8 10 In 1638 the Dutch West India Company secured a deed from the Lenape subsequently Peter Stuyvesant chartered present day Bushwick in 1661 under the name Boswijck meaning neighborhood in the woods in 17th century Dutch 11 171 12 13 Likewise Ridgewood was part of Newtown one of the three initial towns in Queens and was settled by the British 9 In both neighborhoods British and Dutch families tilled farms and grew crops for Brooklyn s and Manhattan s markets Many of these farms also had slaves 11 1001 14 15 48 The only known remaining Dutch farmhouse in the neighborhood is the Onderdonk House which was erected in 1709 16 Also at the Onderdonk House site is Arbitration Rock a marker for the disputed boundary between Bushwick and Newtown and by extension Brooklyn and Queens see Border with Bushwick 17 18 The land remained rural through the American Revolutionary War though there may have been a burial ground in the area 14 Ridgewood s oldest streets are Myrtle Avenue Metropolitan Avenue and Fresh Pond Road which were used by farmers to take their goods to markets 19 Fresh Pond Road was formerly a Native American trail the other roads were laid out as plank roads in the early to mid 19th century 10 19th century development edit The development of public transportation starting with horse drawn cars in the mid 19th century and later succeeded by trolleys and elevated trains helped to spur residential and retail development 20 The first transit line to arrive in the neighborhood was the Myrtle Avenue horsecar which was extended to Brooklyn s Broadway in 1855 14 21 Following this the Bay Ridge Branch opened in 1878 connecting to Sheepshead Bay Manhattan Beach and the Brooklyn shorefront via the Manhattan Beach Railroad 19 22 The Myrtle Avenue elevated railroad running above Myrtle Avenue within Brooklyn was extended to the Queens border in 1889 23 24 An electric trolley line through Ridgewood running to Lutheran Cemetery was opened along a private right of way in 1894 Ten years later the Myrtle Avenue Elevated was extended on a ground level alignment over that trolley line 19 The current elevated structure would be erected along the Lutheran Cemetery line s right of way in 1915 25 Simultaneously northern Brooklyn was seeing an increase in the number of German immigrants 14 Many of the city s German immigrants had originally settled in Manhattan s Little Germany located mostly within the East Village and Lower East Side in the mid 19th century 26 By the late 19th and early 20th centuries German immigrants had moved to other enclaves such as Yorkville Manhattan Steinway Queens and the north Brooklyn Ridgewood area 27 The discovery of freshwater under northern Brooklyn resulted in the development of breweries where many Germans worked 14 By 1880 there were 35 breweries in Brooklyn including a 14 block brewer s row within Bushwick that contained at least 11 breweries 21 19 Factories and knitting mills were also opened within the communities and speculative German developers built houses consisting mostly of multi family stock that were three or four stories tall 19 Brewer s Row had grown to 14 breweries by 1890 28 29 20th century development edit Residential construction edit nbsp One of the rowhouse developments in Ridgewood preserved as part of the Stockholm DeKalb Hart Historic DistrictRidgewood remained rural until the unification of New York City s boroughs in 1898 even as Bushwick had become fully developed Development in Ridgewood in the 19th century consisted mostly of picnicking locations beer gardens racetracks and amusement areas for the residents of Bushwick By the end of the century developers had bought these sites and started constructing rowhouses and tenements usually two to three stories high 19 30 The Ridgewood Board of Trade created in 1902 was organized to develop the streets and utilities and to improve the transit infrastructure 19 31 Much of the housing stock was erected between 1905 and 1915 32 33 Most of the houses built before 1905 were wood frame houses that year a zoning ordinance was passed requiring new buildings to be made of masonry 19 34 The area was developed more quickly after the Queensboro Bridge opened in 1909 connecting Queens to Manhattan 34 According to a 1909 issue of the Real Estate Record and Guide development was concentrated in a 150 block area around East Williamsburg in Brooklyn namely the present day area of Ridgewood 30 More than five thousand buildings were built from the beginning of the 20th century to World War I s start in the mid 1910s Residential construction predominated in the southern part of Ridgewood while industrial factories and mills were prevalent in the northern section near Newtown Creek 34 Construction slowed down during World War I but resumed shortly after the war s end and by the 1930s the last farmland in Ridgewood had been developed Some of the later houses were single family homes with garages 34 35 Two of the more drastic changes to Ridgewood s character in the 1920s were the implementation of a street numbering system across Queens in 1925 36 followed by the opening of the Canarsie subway on the neighborhood s southern border in 1928 37 38 Ethnic changes edit Ridgewood was among New York City s most quickly developing neighborhoods between at least 1906 39 40 and 1911 39 41 Much of the new housing was originally settled by Germans who had mostly moved from other neighborhoods such as Williamsburg To the German newcomers the modern and more expansive houses in Ridgewood provided an improvement over the cramped housing stock in their former neighborhoods 39 A 1913 Real Estate Record article stated that for several years Germans had been moving to Ridgewood from the city s other boroughs 42 Figures from the 1910 United States Census indicated that much of Ridgewood s population was working class and of German or Eastern European descent and many homes were owner occupied 36 43 44 Ridgewood s German population was so large that the Ridgewood Times first issue in 1908 was published in both English and German 45 After World War I the population expanded with an influx of Gottscheers an ethnic German population from Slovenia who were dislocated in the aftermath of World War I and spoke the Gottscheerish dialect 45 Other Eastern Europeans came as well As recorded in the 1920 United States Census the population of Ridgewood was mostly working class homeowners from Germany Austria or Italy with a smaller population from Hungary Ireland Poland and Sweden 36 43 44 46 The demographic figures remained relatively unchanged through the 1930 United States Census 36 46 The large German presence led to disputes following the rise of Nazi Germany and a large 9 000 person boycott of Nazi Germany in April 1934 resulted in brawls between Nazi sympathizers and about 200 Communists members of the Anti Fascist League of Brooklyn as well as several hundred members of the Blue Shirt Minutemen of Brownsville and members of the Jewish War Veterans League 47 Still in the 1939 WPA Guide to New York City workers for the Federal Writers Project described Ridgewood and Bushwick as old fashioned and respectable and said that Ridgewood rivals Manhattan s Yorkville as a German center 48 By the 1940 United States Census Southern Europeans were also recorded as having moved into Ridgewood 36 In the mid 20th century Romanians Serbs and Puerto Ricans arrived By the late 20th century Poles Dominicans 49 50 51 and Ecuadorians including a significant population of Quechua speaking Amerindians from the Imbabura and Canar provinces of Ecuador had moved to Ridgewood 52 Other large populations included Yugoslavians Chinese Koreans and Slovenians 53 54 Late 20th century edit Originally Ridgewood and Glendale shared ZIP Code 11227 with Bushwick Following the 1977 blackout the communities of Ridgewood and Glendale expressed a desire to disassociate themselves from Bushwick 55 Residents voted on a proposal to create a new ZIP Code and a majority of votes were cast in favor of the proposal 56 The communities were given the ZIP Code 11385 in 1980 57 By the mid 1980s parts of Ridgewood had been given federal landmark designations Young professionals were also moving to the neighborhood in large numbers and Ridgewood s homeownership rates increased 58 Demographics editBased on data from the 2010 United States Census the population of Ridgewood was 69 317 a decrease of 138 0 2 from the 69 455 counted in 2000 Covering an area of 1 156 31 acres 467 94 ha the neighborhood had a population density of 59 9 acre 38 300 sq mi 14 800 km2 2 The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 39 8 27 558 White 2 0 1 380 African American 0 1 93 Native American 7 7 5 331 Asian 0 0 19 Pacific Islander 0 3 204 from other races and 1 1 765 from two or more races Hispanic or Latino of any race were 49 0 33 967 of the population 3 The entirety of Community Board 5 which comprises Maspeth Ridgewood Middle Village and Glendale had 166 924 inhabitants as of NYC Health s 2018 Community Health Profile with an average life expectancy of 81 4 years 59 2 20 This is about equal to the median life expectancy of 81 2 for all New York City neighborhoods 60 53 PDF p 84 61 Most inhabitants are youth and middle aged adults 22 are between the ages of 0 17 31 between 25 and 44 and 26 between 45 and 64 The ratio of college aged and elderly residents was lower at 8 and 13 respectively 59 2 As of 2017 the median household income in Community Board 5 was 71 234 62 In 2018 an estimated 19 of Ridgewood and Maspeth residents lived in poverty compared to 19 in all of Queens and 20 in all of New York City One in seventeen residents 6 were unemployed compared to 8 in Queens and 9 in New York City Rent burden or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent is 46 in Ridgewood and Maspeth lower than the boroughwide and citywide rates of 53 and 51 respectively Based on this calculation as of 2018 update Maspeth Ridgewood Middle Village and Glendale are considered to be high income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying 59 7 Land use and terrain edit nbsp Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal ChurchRidgewood is zoned for various land uses but is mostly commercial along main streets and residential alongside streets Large parts of the neighborhood are residential historic districts In addition the large Cemetery Belt is located directly to the south 63 The majority of the neighborhood covers a large hill part of the glacial moraine that created Long Island which starts at Metropolitan Avenue rises steeply for about two blocks then slopes down gently For instance at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Parish on 60th Place the front entrance of the church is almost level with the second floor of the Parish school next door citation needed Part of Ridgewood around the Linden Hill Cemetery centered around Flushing and Metropolitan Avenues was once known as Linden Hill distinct from the neighborhood of Linden Hill in Flushing Queens Linden Street is named after this subsection of Ridgewood 64 Residential edit nbsp A typical block in RidgewoodRidgewood is a densely settled neighborhood with housing stock ranging from six family buildings near the Brooklyn border to two family and single family row houses deeper into Queens 63 Ridgewood is visually distinguished by the large amount of yellow face brick construction which is characteristic of the early 20th century rowhouses built in the neighborhoods 65 66 67 68 Most of Ridgewood was developed block by block around the turn of the 20th century Most of the buildings were designed by local architect Louis Berger amp Co which designed more than 5 000 buildings in the area 69 The neighborhood has been largely untouched by construction since then leaving many centrally planned blocks of houses and tenements still in the same state as their construction These blocks include the Mathews Flats six family cold water tenements Ring Gibson Houses two and four family houses with stores and Stier Houses curved two family rowhouses Many of these houses are well kept and retain much of their early 20th century appeal 70 Commercial edit nbsp Ridgewood Savings Bank headquarters since 1929 located in RidgewoodThere are low density commercial districts along Myrtle Forest and Metropolitan Avenues and Fresh Pond Road 63 Ridgewood is home to Ridgewood Savings Bank the largest mutual savings bank in New York State Their headquarters is located at the intersection of Myrtle and Forest Avenues and was built in 1929 The building architects were Halsey McCormack and Helmer Inc and the general contractors were Stamarith Construction Corporation 71 The building s exterior is made of limestone and contains an eight foot granite base The interior has travertine walls and marble floors Landmarks edit Historic districts edit In Ridgewood 10 national historic districts were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 72 68th Avenue 64th Place Historic District Central Ridgewood Historic District Cornelia Putnam Historic District Cypress Avenue East Historic District Cypress Avenue West Historic District Fresh Pond Traffic Historic District Madison Putnam 60th Place Historic District Seneca Avenue East Historic District Stockholm DeKalb Hart Historic District Summerfield Street Row Historic District nbsp Map of New York City Historic Districts in Ridgewood In addition the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated four landmark districts in Ridgewood Stockholm Street Historic District designated 2000 This historic district consists of 36 two story brick rowhouses two garages and a stable built primarily in 1907 1910 by Joseph Weiss amp Company along Stockholm Street the only remaining brick street in Ridgewood 65 Ridgewood North Historic District designated 2009 This historic district includes 96 buildings mostly three story brick rowhouses called Mathews Model Flats built in 1908 1914 by the G X Mathews Company 66 Ridgewood South Historic District designated 2010 This historic district includes 210 buildings a large collection of three story brick rowhouses as well as the St Matthias Roman Catholic Church built in 1911 1912 by the G X Mathews Company 67 Central Ridgewood Historic District designated 2014 This historic district includes 990 buildings mostly brick rowhouses constructed in 1906 1915 by various small builders 68 Individual landmarks edit There are two individual city designated landmarks The Vander Ende Onderdonk House built in the mid to late 18th century and designated in 1995 73 The house was a crucial point in the 1769 survey that established the Kings Queens county border 17 The Ridgewood Theater Building was built 1916 and designated in 2010 74 The 1 950 seat William Fox moviehouse operated until 2008 75 and is now a Blink Fitness The Vander Ende Onderdonk House the Evergreens Cemetery and St Matthias Roman Catholic Church Complex are listed on the National Register of Historic Places 72 76 Police and crime editMaspeth Ridgewood Middle Village and Glendale are patrolled by the 104th Precinct of the NYPD located at 64 02 Catalpa Avenue 6 The 104th Precinct ranked 21st safest out of 69 patrol areas for per capita crime in 2010 However the precinct covers a large diamond shaped area and Maspeth and Middle Village are generally seen as safer than Ridgewood 77 As of 2018 update with a non fatal assault rate of 19 per 100 000 people Ridgewood and Maspeth s rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole The incarceration rate of 235 per 100 000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole 59 8 The 104th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s with crimes across all categories having decreased by 87 4 between 1990 and 2018 The precinct reported 2 murders 17 rapes 140 robberies 168 felony assaults 214 burglaries 531 grand larcenies and 123 grand larcenies auto in 2018 78 Fire safety edit nbsp Engine Co 291 Ladder Co 40Ridgewood contains a New York City Fire Department FDNY fire station Engine Co 291 Ladder Co 140 at 56 07 Metropolitan Avenue 79 80 Health editAs of 2018 update preterm births and births to teenage mothers are less common in Ridgewood and Maspeth than in other places citywide In Ridgewood and Maspeth there were 70 preterm births per 1 000 live births compared to 87 per 1 000 citywide and 17 6 births to teenage mothers per 1 000 live births compared to 19 3 per 1 000 citywide 59 11 Ridgewood and Maspeth have a low population of residents who are uninsured In 2018 this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 13 slightly higher than the citywide rate of 12 59 14 The concentration of fine particulate matter the deadliest type of air pollutant in Ridgewood and Maspeth is 0 008 mg m3 8 0 10 9 oz cu ft more than the city average 59 9 Twenty percent of Ridgewood and Maspeth residents are smokers which is higher than the city average of 14 of residents being smokers 59 13 In Ridgewood and Maspeth 19 of residents are obese 7 are diabetic and 20 have high blood pressure compared to the citywide averages of 22 8 and 23 respectively 59 16 In addition 19 of children are obese compared to the citywide average of 20 59 12 Ninety two percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day which is higher than the city s average of 87 In 2018 78 of residents described their health as good very good or excellent equal to the city s average of 78 59 13 For every supermarket in Ridgewood and Maspeth there are 5 bodegas 59 10 The nearest major hospitals are Elmhurst Hospital Center in Elmhurst 81 and the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Bushwick Post offices and ZIP Code editRidgewood is covered by ZIP Code 11385 which it shares with neighboring Glendale 82 The United States Post Office operates three post offices nearby Fresh Pond Station 60 80 Woodbine Street 83 Ridgewood Station 60 60 Myrtle Avenue 84 Wyckoff Heights Station 86 Wyckoff Avenue 85 Border with Bushwick edit nbsp Arbitration Rock where the county border was set in 1769Today Ridgewood s land area lies within Queens County However its political boundary with Brooklyn causes confusion and debate about where the western boundary of Ridgewood truly lies and whether part of Ridgewood is considered to be actually part of Brooklyn The political dispute dates to the 17th century when Newtown was under English rule and Boswijck was under Dutch rule Disputes over the boundary between the two settlements continued until 1769 when a boundary line was drawn through what later became known as the Arbitration Rock 17 86 87 The street grid plan in Ridgewood and Bushwick was laid out in the late 19th century Because the Arbitration Rock lay along a diagonal with this grid plan numerous houses were built on the Brooklyn Queens boundary their owners sometimes subject to taxes from both counties 88 86 During the 19th century this resulted in situations where some houses received water and fire protection from what was then the city of Brooklyn while their neighbors in Queens had to rely on volunteer firefighting squads and paid exorbitant water bills to private utilities in Elmhurst 88 In 1925 the political boundary was adapted to the street grid resulting in a zig zag pattern 86 87 a The change resulted in 2 543 persons addresses being reassigned from Queens to Brooklyn and 135 persons addresses reassigned from Brooklyn to Queens 87 Modern addresses in the two boroughs can be distinguished by the presence or absence of a hyphen in the house number 89 Queens s house numbering system uses a hyphen between the closest cross street which comes before the hyphen and the actual address which comes after the hyphen 90 While buildings fronting on streets that are west of Forest Avenue and the Bay Ridge Branch follow the Queens address numbering system the avenues which run parallel to the county line bounded by Metropolitan Avenue to the north Forest Avenue to the east and the Brooklyn border to the south do not follow this address numbering system Streets in this area that run perpendicular to the county line are demarcated by a jump in numbering sequence between the two boroughs 89 ZIP Code changes edit Since at least 1898 when the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens were created as part of the City of Greater New York Glendale and Ridgewood s postal mail had been routed through the main Brooklyn post office in Williamsburg rather than the main post office in Flushing because they are located closer to Williamsburg 91 When ZIP Codes were assigned in 1963 the neighborhoods were assigned Brooklyn ZIP Codes with the 112 prefix along with all areas whose mail was routed through a Brooklyn post office 91 This gave Glendale and Ridgewood a Brooklyn mailing address despite actually being located in Queens 91 The neighborhoods ZIP Code of 11227 was shared with Bushwick Brooklyn as well as with Wyckoff Heights on the border of the two boroughs After the 1977 New York City blackout newspapers around the country published UPI and Associated Press photos of Bushwick residents with stolen items and a police officer beating a suspected looter and Bushwick became known for riots and looting 92 Afterward the communities of Ridgewood and Glendale expressed a desire to disassociate themselves from Bushwick 55 Following complaints from residents Postmaster General William Bolger proposed that the ZIP Codes would be changed if United States Representative Geraldine Ferraro could produce evidence that 70 of residents supported it 91 93 After Ferraro s office distributed ballots to residents 93 percent of the returned ballots voted for the change 56 The change to ZIP Code 11385 was made effective January 13 1980 57 Newspaper editThe Ridgewood Times established in 1908 and now known as the Times Newsweekly serves as the community newspaper 94 It is published in English and was formerly published in German as well 45 The Ridgewood Post is an online version of the community newspaper It is a part of the Queens Post group a subsidiary of Outer Boro Media which publishes seven local news sites in Queens and one in North Brooklyn Education editRidgewood and Maspeth generally have a lower rate of college educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018 update While 33 of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher 16 have less than a high school education and 50 are high school graduates or have some college education By contrast 39 of Queens residents and 43 of city residents have a college education or higher 59 6 The percentage of Ridgewood and Maspeth students excelling in math rose from 36 in 2000 to 67 in 2011 and reading achievement rose from 42 to 49 during the same time period 95 Ridgewood and Maspeth s rate of elementary school student absenteeism is less than the rest of New York City In Ridgewood and Maspeth 14 of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year lower than the citywide average of 20 60 24 PDF p 55 59 6 Additionally 82 of high school students in Ridgewood and Maspeth graduate on time more than the citywide average of 75 59 6 Schools edit Ridgewood s public schools are operated by the New York City Department of Education Ridgewood contains the following public elementary schools which serve grades PK 5 unless otherwise indicated PS 68 96 PS 71 97 PS 81 98 PS 88 99 PS 239 100 PS 305 PK 3 101 The following middle schools are located in Ridgewood IS 77 102 IS 93 103 Grover Cleveland High School is the only high school in Ridgewood and is the zoned public high school to most of Ridgewood 104 There are two Catholic grammar schools located in the neighborhood The first one is the Notre Dame Catholic Academy formerly known as Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal School located on Bleecker and 61st Streets The second one is St Matthias Catholic Academy located on Catalpa Avenue between Onderdonk and Woodward Avenues Libraries edit The Queens Public Library s Ridgewood branch is located at 20 12 Madison Street 105 The Brooklyn Public Library s Washington Irving branch is located at 360 Irving Avenue near Woodbine Street just across Ridgewood s border with Bushwick 106 The Queens and Brooklyn Public Libraries are separate library systems and are not interchangeable 107 Transportation editThe New York City Subway s BMT Myrtle Avenue Line M train runs through the heart of Ridgewood with stops at Seneca Avenue Forest Avenue and Fresh Pond Road Additionally the Myrtle Wyckoff Avenues station in the southern portion of Ridgewood is a transportation hub serving the Myrtle Avenue Line the BMT Canarsie Line L train and several buses 108 At the end of the Myrtle Avenue Line is the Fresh Pond Yard a storage yard for the M train Halsey Street L train has entrances in both Ridgewood and Bushwick 109 The Ridgewood Terminal at the Myrtle Wyckoff Avenues station serves New York City Bus B13 B26 B52 B54 Q55 and Q58 lines The B20 B38 B57 Q39 Q54 and Q67 bus lines also serve Ridgewood 110 In addition the neighborhood is home to the large Fresh Pond Bus Depot which services many of the buses that run throughout Brooklyn and Queens Parks and recreation editThis section needs expansion You can help by adding to it March 2019 nbsp Ridgewood Veterans TriangleThe Ridgewood Park baseball ground built on land owned by William Wallace 111 was part of a larger entertainment area bounded by Wyckoff Avenue Covert Street Halsey Street and Irving Avenue From 1886 to 1889 it was home to the Brooklyn Bridegrooms later the Brooklyn Dodgers and now the Los Angeles Dodgers for their Sunday games 112 The property continued to operate until 1959 113 Another similarly named site called Grauer s Ridgewood Park was located between Myrtle Avenue Cypress Avenue Seneca Avenue and Decatur Street and was used mainly as a picnic site 114 115 Mafera Park named after former Queens borough president Joseph F Mafera is located south of the Fresh Pond Junction between the Myrtle Avenue elevated line to the west and the Bay Ridge Branch to the east 116 Notable people editSee also Category People from Ridgewood Queens Notable current and former residents of Ridgewood include Pedro Beato born 1986 pitcher who played for the New York Mets 117 James Cagney 1899 1986 actor 118 Peter Daempfle born 1970 author 119 Chris Distefano born 1984 comedian 120 Joe Duplantier born 1976 French American musician and producer owner of Silver Cord Studio Rockwall studios complex on the Halsey stop 121 122 Ron Eldard born 1965 actor 123 Philip Giaccone 1932 1980 Bonanno crime family capo citation needed Nick Hakim born 1992 singer songwriter 124 Mitski born 1990 singer songwriter 125 Jeannie Ortega born 1986 recording artist songwriter actress citation needed Rosie Perez born 1964 actress attended school in Ridgewood Tommy Ramone 1949 2014 musician original member of the Ramones 126 Katie Sandwina 1884 1952 circus strongwoman and one time Strongest Woman in the World opened a restaurant at 70 02 Cypress Hills Street in 1942 127 Dan Schneider born 1965 poet and critic Genesis P Orridge 1950 2020 avant garde musician Throbbing Gristle Psychic TV 128 Bob Sheppard 1910 2010 public address announcer for the New York Yankees and New York Giants 129 Gus Van 1886 1968 singer and vaudeville star part of the team of Van amp Schenck Reginald VelJohnson born 1952 actor John Ventimiglia born 1963 actor who played Artie Bucco on The Sopranos 130 John Wilson born 1986 documentary filmmaker 131 In popular culture editParquet Courts 2013 song Stoned and Starving includes the lyric I was walking through Ridgewood Queens 132 References editNotes edit Traveling south from the Newtown Creek the border traveled on the following streets Southeast onto Onderdonk Avenue Southwest onto Flushing Avenue Southeast onto Cypress Avenue Southwest onto Grove Street Southeast onto St Nicholas Avenue Southwest onto Palmetto Street Southeast onto Wyckoff Avenue Southwest onto Covert Street Southeast onto Irving Avenue The border then entered Most Holy Trinity Cemetery and the Cemetery of the Evergreens 87 Citations edit NYC Planning 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2015 Schubel 1913 p 11 Mafera Park Highilghts NYC Parks Retrieved September 6 2019 Castillo Jorge From a Long Toss From Shea to a Mets Closer Archived February 11 2017 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times July 17 2011 Accessed June 15 2016 Beato and his family settled in Woodside Queens a long toss from Shea Stadium where his adopted hometown team the Mets played His family would later move to Ridgewood on the Queens Brooklyn border and he attended Xaverian High School in Brooklyn Garcia Krista August 2 2002 Close Up On Ridgewood Queens Village Voice Retrieved March 8 2008 Q amp A with Peter Daempfle Archived February 2 2021 at the Wayback Machine Delhi People November 2004 Vol 3 No 2 Accessed January 25 2021 Birthplace Ridgewood Queens NY Fraser Lisa A Chris Distefano Comedian Archived January 31 2021 at the Wayback Machine Queens Ledger May 31 2011 Accessed January 25 2021 The Ridgewood born comedian polishes his routine everyday And he often does shows at local places in Queens Brooklyn and Manhattan Ramanand Liz May 19 2016 5 Questions With Gojira s Joe and Mario Duplantier Loudwire Archived from the original on January 29 2021 Retrieved February 6 2021 Grow Kory March 30 2016 Gojira Preview Emotional Epic New Album Rolling Stone Archived from the original on June 9 2016 Retrieved February 6 2021 Yarrow Andrew L New Faces Annabella Sciorra and Ron Eldard The Actors Who Gave Life To the Couple in True Love Archived February 1 2021 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times December 29 1989 Accessed January 25 2021 I ve always been disturbed at how Italian Americans are usually portrayed in movies but Nancy and Rich made it clear they weren t looking for stereotypes Mr Eldard said Half my family is Sicilian and where I lived in Queens in Ridgewood is very Italian Pulgar E R Nick Hakim Is Ready to Share His Quiet Explorations With the World Rolling Stone January 23 2023 Accessed January 24 2024 Nick Hakim seems to inherently understand the value of silence of sparseness The child of a Peruvian father and a Chilean mother Hakim was born in Washington D C and now resides in a quiet pocket of the Ridgewood neighborhood in Queens New York along the Brooklyn border Live at Brooklyn Magazine Mitski YouTube www youtube com Archived from the original on December 13 2021 Retrieved December 15 2020 Sisario Ben Tommy Ramone Dies at 65 He Gave Punk Rock Its Pulse Archived August 22 2017 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times July 12 2014 Accessed June 15 2016 Tom Erdelyi better known as Tommy Ramone the founding drummer and last surviving original member of the Ramones the New York City band whose dizzying short blasts of melody codified the sound of punk rock died on Friday at his home in Ridgewood Queens Times Newsweekly Our Neighborhood The Way It Was www timesnewsweekly com Retrieved July 26 2016 Dodero Camille Artist Provocateur Genesis Breyer P Orridge Lives By the Last Exit To Brooklyn Archived October 16 2018 at the Wayback Machine The Village Voice February 16 2011 Accessed October 15 2018 Purchased a year ago for 325 000 and requiring 60 000 in renovations this has been Genesis s nest since June 2010 when she or s he as Gen specifies sold the Ridgewood Queens brownstone that she and her late wife Lady Jaye had shared for more than a decade Coffey Wayne For nearly 60 years Bob Sheppard has set tone of Yankee Stadium Archived August 8 2016 at the Wayback Machine New York Daily News September 20 2008 Accessed June 15 2016 The son of a New York City building inspector Sheppard was born in Ridgewood Queens before the family moved to Richmond Hill LaSala Anthony The Brooklynites p 129 powerHouse Books 2007 ISBN 9781576873984 Accessed February 6 2024 I grew up in Teaneck New Jersey My parents came here from Sicily and they moved to what was actually Queens but they called Brookalino It was Ridgewood which is on the Brooklyn Queens border Abebe Nitsuh The Genius Behind the Weirdest Show on TV Archived December 12 2021 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times Magazine December 7 2021 Accessed December 11 2021 A morning stroll near his building in Ridgewood Queens did not offer up anything with the kind of Wilsonian surreality the show specializes in Sheffield Rob Parquet Courts So Stoned So Starving Archived December 22 2021 at the Wayback Machine Rolling Stone October 10 2013 Accessed December 22 2021 Bibliography edit Harrison Tara September 15 2009 Ridgewood North Historic District PDF New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Harrison Tara October 26 2010 Ridgewood South Historic District PDF New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Presa Donald December 9 2014 Central Ridgewood Historic District PDF New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Presa Donald November 28 2000 Stockholm Street Historic District PDF New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Schubel George 1913 Illustrated history of Greater Ridgewood together with brief sketches of its industries organizations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men Ridgewood Times Printing and Publishing Company OCLC 306313 via Internet Archive Further reading edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ridgewood Queens One Family Makes a Move and Four Others Follow The New York Times January 2 2005 Retrieved October 11 2019 Ridgewood Theatre in Ridgewood NY Cinema Treasures December 23 1916 Retrieved October 11 2019 History of Ridgewood NY Ridgewood NY October 10 2019 Archived from the original on July 16 2014 Retrieved October 11 2019 Portal nbsp New York City Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ridgewood Queens amp oldid 1204433243, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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