Germania Air-Drome

Greene Avenue and Fairview Avenue,
Ridgewood, NY 11385

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Bway
Bway on May 26, 2009 at 9:40 am

I assume this is the site of the old airdrome.

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Bway
Bway on February 17, 2008 at 2:28 pm

Ooops, sorry, I had Woodward on my mind from the Ridgewood Amusement! Here’s the proper corner. I am going to assume that it was on the lower corner, the south corner or Greene and Fairview, as that is a larger apartment building of bricks, which doesn’t match the 3 other corners which are older wooden frame buildings.
That larger apartment building was built later than the other three corners. Woodframe tenemants were outlawed around 1900 or so, so it’s so it’s safe to say that they were there already when the Airdrome was built on the other corner in 1915. The brick building was built some time after the Airdrome closed.

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lostmemory
lostmemory on February 16, 2008 at 3:57 pm

The map is showing Woodward Avenue, Bway. You need to move the map one more block (NE) to Fairview Avenue.

Bway
Bway on February 16, 2008 at 10:56 am

It looks like the Germainia Air-Drome was replaced by a bunch of garages at some point:

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lostmemory
lostmemory on December 22, 2007 at 7:49 pm

Thanks to Ken Roe for posting that link. Since the Ridgewood Amusement Palace is also mentioned in that letter, we know that both theaters were operating in May of 1915.