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Castillo, Jorge. "From a Long Toss From Shea to a Mets Closer"Archived February 11, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, July 17, 2011. Accessed June 15, 2016. "Beato and his family settled in Woodside, Queens, a long toss from Shea Stadium, where his adopted hometown team, the Mets, played. His family would later move to Ridgewood, on the Queens-Brooklyn border, and he attended Xaverian High School in Brooklyn."
Sisario, Ben. "Tommy Ramone Dies at 65; He Gave Punk Rock Its Pulse"Archived August 22, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, July 12, 2014. Accessed June 15, 2016. "Tom Erdelyi, better known as Tommy Ramone, the founding drummer and last surviving original member of the Ramones, the New York City band whose dizzying, short blasts of melody codified the sound of punk rock, died on Friday at his home in Ridgewood, Queens."
Fraser, Lisa A. "Chris Distefano, Comedian"Archived January 31, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, Queens Ledger, May 31, 2011. Accessed January 25, 2021. "The Ridgewood-born comedian polishes his routine everyday. And he often does shows at local places in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan."
Pulgar, E. R. "Nick Hakim Is Ready to Share His Quiet Explorations With the World", Rolling Stone, January 23, 2023. Accessed January 24, 2024. "Nick Hakim seems to inherently understand the value of silence, of sparseness. The child of a Peruvian father and a Chilean mother, Hakim was born in Washington, D.C., and now resides in a quiet pocket of the Ridgewood neighborhood in Queens, New York, along the Brooklyn border."
Dodero, Camille. "Artist Provocateur Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Lives By the Last Exit To Brooklyn"Archived October 16, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, The Village Voice, February 16, 2011. Accessed October 15, 2018. "Purchased a year ago for $325,000 and requiring $60,000 in renovations, this has been Genesis's nest since June 2010, when she (or s/he, as Gen specifies) sold the Ridgewood, Queens, brownstone that she and her late wife, Lady Jaye, had shared for more than a decade."
"National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 9/04/12 through 9/07/12. National Park Service. September 14, 2012. Archived from the original on February 2, 2014. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
Castillo, Jorge. "From a Long Toss From Shea to a Mets Closer"Archived February 11, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, July 17, 2011. Accessed June 15, 2016. "Beato and his family settled in Woodside, Queens, a long toss from Shea Stadium, where his adopted hometown team, the Mets, played. His family would later move to Ridgewood, on the Queens-Brooklyn border, and he attended Xaverian High School in Brooklyn."
Fraser, Lisa A. "Chris Distefano, Comedian"Archived January 31, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, Queens Ledger, May 31, 2011. Accessed January 25, 2021. "The Ridgewood-born comedian polishes his routine everyday. And he often does shows at local places in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan."
Sisario, Ben. "Tommy Ramone Dies at 65; He Gave Punk Rock Its Pulse"Archived August 22, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, July 12, 2014. Accessed June 15, 2016. "Tom Erdelyi, better known as Tommy Ramone, the founding drummer and last surviving original member of the Ramones, the New York City band whose dizzying, short blasts of melody codified the sound of punk rock, died on Friday at his home in Ridgewood, Queens."
Dodero, Camille. "Artist Provocateur Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Lives By the Last Exit To Brooklyn"Archived October 16, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, The Village Voice, February 16, 2011. Accessed October 15, 2018. "Purchased a year ago for $325,000 and requiring $60,000 in renovations, this has been Genesis's nest since June 2010, when she (or s/he, as Gen specifies) sold the Ridgewood, Queens, brownstone that she and her late wife, Lady Jaye, had shared for more than a decade."
