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We're gonna take a big jump south east toward the Brooklyn Border neighborhoods in the center of the borough, Ridgewood and Glendale.



Ridgewood- Ridgewood is a Queens residential neighborhood that straddles Queens and Brooklyn. Ridgewood was originally part of Bushwick and long settled by the Dutch, since the earliest years of the 18th century who farmed the land well into the 19th century. The neighborhood began growing as street cars and elevated rail made their way into the community later on in the 1800’s. The neighborhood which developed block by block by densely packed block.
Row houses were built up to house German immigrants working in the breweries of Bushwick. Soon enough ethnic Slovenians began populating the neighborhood followed by the Irish and then the Italians as the 20th century rolled on. The neighborhood during the 80’s and 90’s started taking on a large number of newly arrived Polish Immigrants as the area was already a hot spot for the poles. Today Ecuadorians, Dominicans and the Polish all dominate the neighborhood though there are pockets of African Americans and Puerto Ricans.





















Glendale is a residential neighborhood in west-central Queens. The neighborhood was settled during the 1850’s by German farmers and referred to as Fresh Ponds. During the Civil War era a developer by the name of Schott was given a vast portion as debt payment. Schott named this area Glendale after his Ohio hometown. The community sits in what is known as the Cemetery Belt and is somewhat cut off from other neighborhoods as well as the subway system. The neighborhood did see rail development in the 1870’s when what is today, The Long Island Railroad had a stop. In the 1920’s the rail stop burned down and the Glendale Station discontinued in the 1990’s. Glendale continued to remain farm land until the 1920’s. There has been a long standing Italian and German population in Glendale for generations.