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13 unusual facts about Ridgewood


Andrew Maguire

Maguire attended Budlong Elementary School in Los Angeles, California, and graduated from Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, New Jersey in 1956.

Anthony Como

Within a few months of his birth, his family moved to Ridgewood, Queens.

Chris Caffery

He was part of a band called "Blitzkrieg" in middle school and played a few shows, the first of which was at a bar in Ridgewood, New Jersey when Chris was only 13.

Diana Reyna

Diana Reyna (born 1974) is the New York City Council Member who represents the 34th Council District, which includes Williamsburg and Bushwick as well as Ridgewood in Queens, USA.

Irving Selikoff

Irving J. Selikoff (1915 in New York City – May 20, 1992 in Ridgewood, New Jersey) was a medical researcher who in the 1960s established a link between the inhalation of asbestos particles and lung-related ailments.

John Chester Buttre

John Chester Buttre (10 June 1821 Auburn, New York - 2 December 1893 Ridgewood, New Jersey), was an American steel-plate engraver and lithographer, responsible for some 3 000 engraved portraits of American political, naval and military personalities.

John O. Hertler

John O. Hertler (born September 17, 1950 in Ridgewood, Queens) is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.

Meghan Daum

Although she was born in California, Daum grew up primarily in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

Michael Mercurio

When he was a teenager, they relocated to Ridgewood, New Jersey, where Mercurio attended Ridgewood High School from 1986 until 1988.

Ridgewood, Queensland

It is within the local government area of Shire of Noosa (between 2008 and 2013 it was within Sunshine Coast Region).

Roger Curtis Green

Roger Green was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and expressed an interest in archaeology at an early age.

Samuel S. Koenig

He died at his home at 107 West 86th Street in Manhattan, and was buried at the Union Field Cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens.

Thomas M. Ryan, Jr.

Ryan was born on December 10, 1928, in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, New Jersey, in 1946.


Coshocton County Career Center

It is composed mostly of students that are from River View, Ridgewood, and Coshocton high schools, but students from several other area high schools may attend (per Ohio's Open Enrollment Laws.)

East Saddle River Road

East Saddle River Road is a north-south road from Ridgewood, New Jersey to Monsey, New York.

East Williamsburg, Brooklyn

East Williamsburg consists roughly of what was the 3rd District of the Village of Williamsburg and what is now called the East Williamsburg In-Place Industrial Park (EWIPIP), bounded by the neighborhoods of Northside and Southside Williamsburg to the west, Greenpoint to the north, Bushwick to the south and southeast, and both Maspeth and Ridgewood in Queens to the east.

InstaBook

The first bookstore with an InstaBook in the US was the Bookends store in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

Jack Pitney

A resident of Ridgewood, New Jersey, Pitney died at age 47 on August 26, 2010, when the tractor he was riding while on vacation at his farm in Durham, New York overturned on him while pulling out a tree stump.

Michael Gianaris

He represents New York's 12th State Senate district, which includes the Queens neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside and parts of Woodside, Maspeth, Ridgewood and Woodhaven.

Ridgewood Park, Dallas

Ridgewood Park is a neighborhood in east Dallas Texas (USA).

Ridgewood Pearl

Ridgewood Pearl (1992-2003) was an Irish-based Thoroughbred racehorse who in 1995 won four Group/Grade 1 races in four different countries including over male horses in the Breeders' Cup Mile at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.