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

… part of Ridgewood now but has kept the name it was given at its founding in 1853 On the churchs website the … rush to build Ridgewood … What makes our district so significant is the fact that most of it was built in just four … the older family members were born in Germany while the younger ones were native New Yorkers according to the city …

By Marjorie Cohen |January 26, 2018 - 9:00AM
Pirates, glue factories, and mob graves: Blissville is Queens's dumping ground

… Island Expressway and Newtown Creek is a roughhewn mostly forgotten outpost of New York City Once a bustling … to be a parklike cemetery like GreenWood in Brooklyn or Woodlawn in the Bronx Plots cost $7 and according to  … Blissville Go there first … Cavanzos found his Blissville apartment when he drove through the neighborhood and saw a …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 14, 2017 - 9:00AM