Photos of Ridgewood: Row Houses, Brick, Even a Dutch Farmhouse

Ridgewood looks like Brooklyn more than Queens. Its buildings went up when most of Queens was still farmland, and the brick row houses are even more beautiful today.

While other communities grapple with developers pulling down old houses to build McMansions, Ridgewood's row houses are off-limits, thanks in part to historic preservation zones, but also to the fear that knocking down one home could take out a block of its connected neighbors. Check out the neighborhood's row houses in this photo tour of Ridgewood.

The area's history includes the colonial Dutch who farmed this land at the edge of Newtown Creek. See one of the last remaining Dutch farmhouses on Long Island and one of the oldest structures in Queens: the Onderdonk House (pictured), now home of the Ridgewood Historical Society.

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