It's Not Quite Brooklyn, But the Historic Ridgewood Theater Is Back On The Market
…and the asking price is less than half of what it was two years ago! More details on Curbed.
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Probably had something to do with Federal highway $$.
Why would the Feds mandate uniformity (odd they would focus on street signs when they can’t get us all to put “New York, NY” on our postal addresses)?
When I moved to Brooklyn in 1970 Ridgewood was considered to be split between Brooklyn and Queens. The only way to tell which borough you were in was by the old color-coded street signs (white letters on black for Brooklyn, blue on white for Queens) that existed before the Feds mandated City-wide uniformity. In the mid-70s the Queens part of Ridgewood got a Queens (113..) ZIP code to replace the former Brooklyn-like (112..) one–IIRC something about lowering insurance rates. At about the same time Brooklyn Ridgewood mysteriously vanished (relegated, I imagine, to Bushwick). This is ironic given the present attempt by Ridgewood to cash in on Bushwick’s cachet.