ridgewood queens ny (Glen, Otto: apartment, neighborhood, to live in)

[sallyo]

I Used To Live In Ridgewood Years Ago Never Went Back How Is The Neigborhood. Stockholm Street And Knickerbocker Ave . It Was Broken Down When I Left. We Lived In The Six Family Apartment Building. Does Any One Know How The Neighborhood Turned Out.

[newyorkdoc]

How is this neighborhood? I looked at an apartment there yesterday on Linden St and Myrtle Ave. Didnt look that great.

[kort677]

Originally Posted by newyorkdoc

How is this neighborhood? I looked at an apartment there yesterday on Linden St and Myrtle Ave. Didnt look that great.

I haven't been out that way in awhile, ridgewood was beginning to transition from a decent place to a dump back then, I suspect that it become worse, it borders some pretty bad places and I suppose the future doesn't look good for the area, consider looking at close by glendale or maspeth or middle village

[009]

North of Wyckoff is fine, specifically towards the Stockholm/Cypress area. South of it, towards the area th OP mentioned pretty much is the same.

[Hustla718]

I honestly have never heard a good thing about Ridgewood. Once found out it was near Bushwick, that explains it all.

[roseba]

I live in "upper" Ridgewood, very close to the Glendale border. This is supposed to be the nice part of Ridgewood.

I find the streets relatively clean, and the neighborhood relatively safe.

I find the neighborhood to be a cultural vacuum, unless you are from eastern Europe and speak either Polish, Romanian or Albanian.

The restaurants are abundant, but aren't that good. Especially when dealing with Asian cuisines which are either terrible, or non-existant.

There are no bookstores. The food shopping is so-so. The other shopping is even less thrilling except for a few chain stores on Myrtle Avenue.

The worse thing is the benign neglect from the city.

Forget about traveling by subway on the weekends. There is always some sort of track work on the M line. The playgrounds are not well maintained. The city will do street repair work without regard to citizens. (I live on a major through fare and so they thought it was appropriate to repave the street from 12am to 4am using a machine that made a jack hammer seem quiet.)

[newyorkdoc]

Im going to look at another apartment today in "lower" Ridgewood close to the Bushwick border. It's on Ridgewood Place. Wish me luck!

[Hustla718]

Originally Posted by newyorkdoc

Im going to look at another apartment today in "lower" Ridgewood close to the Bushwick border. It's on Ridgewood Place. Wish me luck!

Originally Posted by roseba

I live in "upper" Ridgewood, very close to the Glendale border. This is supposed to be the nice part of Ridgewood.

Wrong side newyorkdoc...

[SilkCity0416]

Originally Posted by Hustla718

I honestly have never heard a good thing about Ridgewood. Once found out it was near Bushwick, that explains it all.

lmao! I was gonna say the same thing.

[roseba]

Originally Posted by SilkCity0416

lmao! I was gonna say the same thing.

Ridgewood borders clockwise starting at 12 oclock, if you are looking at a Queens bus map.

TOP: Maspeth (Solid middle class, "double fare" zone.)
RIGHT: Middle Village (Very nice suburbia type neighborhood, "double fare" zone. Solid middle class. Near a cemetery)
LOWER RIGHT: Glendale (Solid middle class, "double fare" zone. Lot's of cemetaries.)
BOTTOM: Bushwick
LEFT: Bushwick