Apartments for rent in Ridgewood, Queens

Ridgewood offers the best of both worlds: quieter residential streets, with easy access to the buzz of Brooklyn and Manhattan. Historic row houses, an emerging food scene and a growing creative community have made it a favorite for people who want space without giving up style. It is a Queens neighborhood on the rise, and it carries more of Pear's inventory than anywhere except Bed-Stuy and Bushwick.

Ridgewood is in Queens, bordered by Maspeth to the north, Middle Village to the east and Glendale to the southeast, with its western edge running up against the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bushwick and East Williamsburg. Most of the housing was built between 1905 and 1915 in yellow face brick, much of it by a single prolific local firm, Louis Berger & Co., which is credited with more than 5,000 buildings in the area — including the neighborhood's distinctive "Mathews Flats," six-family walk-ups built to a repeatable plan.

Ten sections of Ridgewood are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the city has separately designated four local landmark districts (Stockholm Street, Ridgewood North, Ridgewood South and Central Ridgewood) between 2000 and 2014. The Vander Ende-Onderdonk House, a mid-to-late 18th-century Dutch farmhouse, is an individual city landmark inside the neighborhood.