Follow the yellow brick: Tracing Ridgewood's history through a single picturesque block

… Abraham and Andrew who owned farmland nearby in the mid19th century The boundaries between Bushwick Brooklyn and … interior light and air and had bathrooms in each individual apartment None of these features were a given at the time … buildings constructed in Ridgewood and Bushwick He came to America from Rheinpfalz Germany in 1880 when he was 5 and …

By Marjorie Cohen |January 26, 2018 - 9:00AM