Kalmon Dolgin

The industrial portion of Ridgewood, Queens, south of Myrtle Avenue was the heart of New York’s knitting industry in its heyday in the 1950’s, but over the past few decades dozens of small mills have buckled against competition from cheaper imports and gone out of business.

Until recently, the area remained largely commercial, but lately the last wave of knitting mills in Ridgewood are being converted into mixed-use buildings, spurring a wave of much-needed residential development.  read more »