Take Five

… included the latest amenities and charged a high price to live there … Stanford White of McKim Mead and Whiteknown for … gardens allowed discreet stabling refuse removal and deliveries Now they are used for parking cars and storing … to freedom 5 secrets of Harlems Sugar Hill   … Buy … Sales Market … Rent … Live … Neighborhood Intel … Harlem … Take …

… The BQE this isnt The Grand Concourse which stretches four miles throughout the … into different parts by treelined medians and flanked by apartment buildings businesses and imposing civic structures … but the current fashions of ManhattanTudor Renaissance and Colonial Revival designs between 1922 and 1931 then Art Deco …

… Winding streets grassy hills and freestanding homes on … Gardens To ensure that the neighborhood would be affluent builders were required to spend at least $6000 on the homes …

… Cynical New Yorkers suspect  that the names given to city neighborhoods are all part of a vast … by local historian Chad Purkey the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnerships director of planning and economic … dont know it as Wallabout and refer to it as the edge of Fort Greene or Clinton Hill But here well focus not on the …

… If youve ever walked on 94th or 95th Street between Broadway and West End Avenue on … lot where Pomander Walk now stands in 1920 He had the homes on the Walk built one year later Since the property … Over the past years  some have been converted into single homes The diminutive houses are built of brick stucco and …

… of Take Five we spoke with Sarah Feldman author of the blog Ridgewood Social about those lesserknown facts that … history thats making a comeback … At the beginning of the 20 th century the two largest industries in Ridgewood were … breweries in production until Prohibition hit in 1920 which all but killed the industry Unintentionally there …