Seneca Avenue East Historic District is a national

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Ridgewood, Queens Ridgewood is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It borders the neighborhoods of Maspeth, Middle Village and Glendale, as well as the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bushwick and East Williamsburg. Historically, the neighborhood s ...

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. It includes 120 contributing buildings built between 1900 and 1915. They consist mainly of brick two story

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with one apartment per floor and three story tenements with two apartments per floor. They feature speckled brick facades in various shades of yellow, amber, burnt orange, brown, and cream. ''See also:'' It was listed on the

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in 1983.

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Ridgewood, Queens Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Queens, New York Historic districts in Queens, New York {{QueensNY-NRHP-stub