Tag: Maspeth

Optimism and complaints in growing Polish enclaves

City Comptroller John Liu speaks with the BID.

During John Liu's recent visit to senior centers in the increasingly Polish enclaves of Ridgewood and Maspeth, Queens, the city comptroller told representatives of local businesses that Ridgewood was an immigrant neighborhood with huge potential.

Polish-American businesses spring up in boroughs

Polish business owner in Ridgewood, Queens

Polish neighborhoods in New York City have recently attracted a large number of non-Polish Americans who moved in and opened businesses. But Polish-American entrepreneurs are not giving up, and new Polish owned businesses are springing up in Greenpoint, Ridgewood and Maspeth.