Painter Kelli Thompson says Ridgewood, her home since 2010, now feels ‘unaffordable and trendy’
The agent showed her a single apartment, on Fresh Pond Road near the M train. Sixteen years later she lives and keeps a studio in Ridgewood, and goes to the Rockaways and Jacob Riis beach every summer for inspiration.
Painter Kelli Thompson says Ridgewood, her home since 2010, now feels ‘unaffordable and trendy’
The agent showed her a single apartment, on Fresh Pond Road near the M train. Sixteen years later she lives and keeps a studio in Ridgewood, and goes to the Rockaways and Jacob Riis beach every summer for inspiration.
Kelli Thompson, a painter who lives and keeps a studio in Ridgewood, said in a Queens Gazette interview that she landed there in 2010 almost by accident, through a “very lazy real estate agent,” and that the area has started to feel “unaffordable and trendy.”
The interview ran as part of the Local-Express series, a question-and-answer column that the Queens Gazette’s Nicollette Barsamian originated on July 3, 2013 to highlight local figures.
Thompson moved to Ridgewood from Boston in 2010, the Queens Gazette reported, and said she landed there almost by accident. “When I first moved to New York 16 years ago I landed in Ridgewood,” she told the paper, describing a “very lazy real estate agent” who showed her a single apartment on Fresh Pond Road near the M train. “I took the apartment and very quickly felt at home in Queens.”
She said the neighborhood has changed. “The area is different these days and has started to feel unaffordable and trendy, but that’s what happens I suppose,” Thompson said…
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