
Old Rowhouses, New Neighbors
The brick rowhouses that line Ridgewood's streets near Myrtle Avenue and Fresh Pond Road have outlasted plenty of change, and the families who have lived in them for decades keep gifting traditions that a newer resident renovating the apartment upstairs might not recognize, a specific ribbon for a holiday, a basket built around a recipe rather than a theme handed down through years of practice. BonVivant works comfortably across that gap between the two.
Newer arrivals drawn by the housing stock and the neighborhood's creative studios bring their own gifting instincts, favoring understated, well-made presentation over anything overtly festive or seasonal, and a housewarming gift for a first Ridgewood apartment tends to lean toward that same restrained aesthetic, quality material over quantity of contents packed into the box. A newer resident who asks about that history often finds BonVivant happy to explain the reasoning behind a specific ribbon or paper choice.




