A most popular Queens brewery that you’ve probably never heard of: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was – QNS
In 1857, John Welz founded his brewery in a small plant on the corner of Scholes Street and…
ZIP-ping through post office battles in Ridgewood and Glendale: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was – QNS
One unique distinction between Queens and the other boroughs of New York City is the importance of a…
Anniversary Day, the lost rite of summer in Ridgewood: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was – QNS
This week, we look back on Anniversary Day celebrations of yesteryear in Ridgewood, now a lost rite of…
The big rock that helped defined the Ridgewood/Brooklyn border: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was – QNS
Many of The Old Timer’s readers have often asked about the borderline between Brooklyn and Queens, which nowadays…
Go through history by the numbers of some Queens neighborhood street names – QNS
Photo via the Ridgewood Times archives Over the years, the “Our Neighborhood” column in the Ridgewood Times, a…