Comments about ridgewood

There are 51 comments about "ridgewood"

Ecto 5000: i lived on Menahan st and Wilson ave rite on the corner in the projects.They were called p60 now they are called Hope Gardens, ive moved away and came back and things have change.But for......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

NewYorkDave: Hmmm, I just realized that that route wouldn't have made any sense considering the number of blocks involved. The pretzels surely would have been cold by the time he reached Onderdonk--unless he were running the......

in response to: Bushwick 77: The Casusos of Harman St. by upfromflames

Upstate Jim: Born in Bushwick in 1963 and moved to rural upstate in 1971. Lived on Dekalb close to knickerbocker ave (about 3 doors down from the pizzeria). I came from a great big family......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

iman: my dads also from bushwick. he lived there until he was about 11, than he moved to ridgewood...

in response to: Tacos La Hacienda by little ukraine

Peter: interesting... i live smack in the middle of the area around {starr}/{troutman}/{jefferson}/{willoughby}, and think its actually pretty good here... id much rather live in this area than the "area closer to ridgewood", but thats just......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

like-iti-s: i would stay away if your going to live in bushwick (if you have to) move to area closer to ridgewood. BUT not starr, troutman, jefferson, willoughby, etc. also visit www.familywatchdog.us and see a list of......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Mushi: Stopped into the new K-Pax Deli on Starr between Wyckoff and Irving. It's a nice, CLEAN little place opened by a Polish couple (which is odd because the Polish population seems to stay in Maspeth,......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Antwerp Kurzweil: dangerous citizens? man, what you need to be worried about is the dangerous NYPD. sure, there's always the chance you'll get mugged in nyc, but then again, theres also a chance you'll get an undeserved......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Wyoming Native: Does anyone have pictures of Grove Street, 1920 Grove Street to be more specific! Would love to see them posted here. Grove Street (circa 1938) was in Ridgewood, but was very close to Bushwick. Old......

in response to: Bakery by Peter

Wyoming Native: My Mom lived at 1920 Grove Street for a short time in 1938. I found Grove Street in Bushwick on a current Brooklyn map, but then found some old articles on the area, and at......

in response to: Winter in Brooklyn reminds me of spring in Moscow by shoshannah

Bushwick Girl: My Bushwick...I love this neighborhood. I've been in the bush since 1988 I migrated here when I was 8 yrs old. Back then I was too young to understand what was really happening in this......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

larry: hey--anyone know much about brownstones on cornelia st. in ridgewood?...

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

upfromflames: Armstrong: sorry for the delay. The answer to your question is an interesting one, since you (as a better off new--white--face the hood) represent one of the forces creating change in this area. Gentrification is......

in response to: The Bushwick Initiative: Holistic Redevelopment or Urban Renewal Retrofit? by upfromflames

ROB: Bushwick sucks, Ridgewood too. I lived in both parts and Gendale too. Williamsburgh and so on. Bushwish/Ridgewood same crap is like this, one small raid road apartment for $1500 a month with......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

upfromflames: good question. glad you asked that, as I just pulled out my CB4 (Bushwick) zoning map out last night after too long. And now I get to use it! Y'see, its pretty easy for the city......

in response to: The Tower of Bushwick by upfromflames

zilep: Bought a house in the heart of Bushwick- on Central avenue and Cornelia streets (one of those cookie cutter homes with all the meters showing- you know the ones the BROWNSTONER people love to hate).......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

teachnyc: I work in bushwick's schools and I can't tell you how many times I hear my counterparts from our sister districts in queens talk about how bad it is in BW (they never want to......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

upfromflames: Further clarification on gut renos: OK, now this is making a lot more sense to me. No, HPD does not handle the gut renos shown above directly. But the people who once lived here are not......

in response to: The Bushwick Initiative: Holistic Redevelopment or Urban Renewal Retrofit? by upfromflames

upfromflames: BD: I truly appreciate your response. Maybe that is why I posted it. Thanks for taking the bait! Your perspective is clearly rich in experience, and me, well, I am a non-NYer who has just......

in response to: The Bushwick Initiative: Holistic Redevelopment or Urban Renewal Retrofit? by upfromflames

upfromflames: [[img:18842]] Central and Bleeker, in the midst of Hope Gardens housing project, one of the most successful housing projects ever built by NYCHA. The building on the corner was put up by the New York Housing......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

John Dereszewski: The Bushwick Initiative is really is an impressive development, probably the most creative initiative since the Bushwick Action Plan of the late 1970's. Over the past month, I have visted Bushwick several times and traveled......

in response to: The Bushwick Initiative: Holistic Redevelopment or Urban Renewal Retrofit? by upfromflames

Jack: I grew up in the adjoining neighborhood, Ridgewood, in the early 50s. Bushwick which I would go to play ball etc., was a beautiful neighborhood but tuff. There were fist fights but no shootings or......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

John Dereszewski: The vacuum of any strong community organizations in Bushwick, at least until the rise of the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Council, had two consequences in the 1970's. One, it made Bushwick especially dependent on directly provided......

in response to: Why Did Bushwick Burn? by upfromflames

upfromflames: Jon: Thanks for your informed contribution. That makes more sense to me than just bureaucratic bungling In terms of fight or flight, most of the Italians took straight to LI. For those that stayed,their power was restricted to......

in response to: Why Did Bushwick Burn? by upfromflames

j.walthers@timesnewsweekly.com: Thank you for your interest. I would like to start with a very brief history of Bushwick to establish both philosophy and development for use as foundation to buttress the argument that the communities of......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

upfromflames: Word. If there is any place for it, its here! The Ridgewood Times has been a voice of Ridgewood-Bushwick for so long, you should continue the tradition now... ...

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

j.walthers@timesnewsweekly.com: This interaction regarding Bushwick, while interesting, is lacking in an understanding of the history of the community, specifically its course and development in Kings County (not Brooklyn) from its chartering in the 1600s, its emergence......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Mushi: I am a white girl from Southern California living in Bushwick by myself. I feel safe. Cay -- you really don't need to worry about your son. The neighborhood is noisy, but fine. I've had......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

from starr st.: 1st. off upfromflames, i am going to my storage space and look for my pics and send them to you. now i was born and rasied in bushwick. PROUD of it.just as proud......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

John: Lived in Ridgewood in the '50s. Went to Paterson for everything and to the Armory to see the Crescents and to Hinchcliff Stadium for the midget cars and the Panthers. You can't go home......

in response to: paterson factory - may 2002 by adam

Lin Lynch: I am looking to move into an apt on Stockholm street, 3 blocks away from Wycoff Hospital. it's a private house, with an apt on the top floor. I have heard mixed reviews......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

"harpo" middle village: The Italian landlords really ruined Bushwick and Ridgewood They rented to multiple families of central and latin Americans - at a ridiculous rate of rent and forced the whites out of the area As usual these......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

anon (198.138.134.32): I'm about to move Decatur Street. What's Bushwick like around the area bordering Ridgewood?...

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

anon (c-69-249-66-117.hsd1.nj.comcast.net): Pat: I heard stories of Plum Beach from my family. who said they could only get to and from it in their Model T at low tide. My grandparents (2nd generation), father (born 1910)......

in response to: Plum Beach by kc

TheTruth: Yeah, Bushwick was raped. Your metaphor is better, Dave. Bushwick was hustled, pimped, beaten, raped, and left for dead. Now Bushwick is getting the bum-rush. The predatory loan-sharks are stealing houses out from......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Dave: That brings me back... I used to see sneakers hanging off phone lines quite often when I was a kid in Ridgewood (Queens) in the early '70s. Later on, I may have lofted a pair......

in response to: Shoes by Peter

Dave: You know, it occurred to me not long after I posted that some of what I wrote would seem offensive to positive Bushwick residents who had been working for a better neighborhood. (Such guiding lights......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

TheTruth: "I see it more as a class war than a race war." "...But that doesn't explain why, poor or not, the residents of Bushwick didn't have enough self-respect to take care of their neighborhood." Dave, did you......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Dave (a Bushwick native): I see it more as a class war than a race war. I'm from the last generation (born mid-1960s) of German-Americans from the Ridgewood/Bushwick area before the Great Exodus of the 1970s. If I claimed......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Proud Bushwacker: I grew up on Wyckoff and Cornelia (BK) on the border of Bushwick and Ridgewood. To tell you the truth, my mom put me in schools in Ridgewood, the schools have always been better......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

TheTruth: Nice try at history, Sylvia, but you've missed some huge factors. My family was part of that 1st wave of nonwhites to integrate Bushwick in the 1950s. They weren't Gentry -- sorry--even though they were......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

BOC: Ya think it cute to move to Bushwick. Ya don't know what ya doing to our neighborhood. It is known when white people move into to the neighborhood the price value of houses go up......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Hazel: I meant your better off living in Ridgewood especial if you have kids cuz the schols in ridgerwood are bad Is 291 and 111 are horrible. I mean if you don't mind your 11 yr......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Hazel: Eveyone is asking if it safe to move to Bushwick, why don't ya move to Ridgewood which right next door. It a part of Queens but a few blocks from Bushwick. If your looking for......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Lily: i agree with vanessasvargas. You could not compare the Bushwick of 20 years ago, to today. Crime has greatly decreased. Not saying it doesn't happen today, but you could not compare the crime extremity of......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

vanessavargas77@yahoo.com: been living in bushwick for over a year, and have not experienced anything bad...but then again, you wont find me hanging around outside of a bodega at 3:30 in the morning waiting for ......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

$incere : i lived in bushwick ma whole life on knickerbocker covert back in da day shit was ccrazy mad pplz dyin and crack and heroine on every corner and now i live on stanhope and......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

ANONOMOUS: DOES ANY ONE KNOW OR REMEMBER A BLOND, FAIR HAIRED GUY NAMED STEVEN STRUCKER FROM THAMES STREET? HE'D BE ABOUT 50 NOW. CURRENTLY LIVING FURTHER UP IN RIDGEWOOD. I NEED HELP FINDING HIM, WE GOT......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Loc: aint ridgewood and bushwick kinda the same thing right now? i mean its right next door to each other....

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

alex : i jus moved to ridgewood from cooper projects in williamsburg and i live 4 blocks away from decatur and irving i see niggaz gettin down ova there its hood there fasho ...

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Former Bushwick Resident: I am a 36 year old hispanic female. Lived all my life in Bushwick. Four years ago, I decided to move to New England and escape the city. I was a single mother of 3.......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew