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The building of the Ridgewood Reservoir at present-day Highland Park—and the many celebrations in the City of Brooklyn when the new water supply began delivering, in the late 1850s—spread the name of Ridgewood throughout America’s fourth largest city. In fact, glasses of water in the parts of Brooklyn tied in to the new distribution system were soon known to all as “Ridgewood highballs.”