Located in wester Queens, Ridgewood was originally founded as a farming community.   In the 1800’s pure ground water was found, spurring a new industry of brewing.  By 1880 there were 11 fully operating breweries in the area.  The booming industry and expanding population encouraged mass transportation renovations, turning Myrtle Avenue into a major through-way.  The first few decades of the 20th century saw major growth in the area, which has steadily continued to present day. 

The site is located in the Historic Ridgewood theater, built at the dawn of the movie theater age. The Ridgewood Theater showed movies continually for over 90 years.  Making it on of the longest running movie theaters in history when it closed in 2008. This project proposes a reinvention of this historic building to combine its theatrical past with the neighborhoods beer brewing history in a combination Brewery and Black Box Theater.