What Youngstown looks like to me (in pictures - LOTS!) (Warren: real estate, rent)

[SorryIMovedBack]

The problem with this region is that it's rural, too far away from Pittsburgh or Cleveland to be a suburb. When the industries died, the towns died. Youngstown, Sharon, Warren, New Castle, etc., grew when they had a great number of factory jobs for employment. People migrated to this area for employment, and they found it. And the employers were stable, back in the day. Now that those big employers have closed or shrunk their workforce(s), what you are left with is a poverty-ridden rural area with little opportunity. It's reverting back to rural small towns, or no towns at all. The employers here are small companies, and the employment is sporadic.

[JR_C]

Last night, I took a walk around the neighborhood (Wick Park) to enjoy the beautiful summer evening. (For this walk, I stuck mostly to the 2 blocks north and east of the park.)

Broadway and Elm
1.


Broadway, north of the park (just the 1st block west of Elm)
2.

3.


Fairgreen
4.


5.


6.


7.


North Heights
8.


9.


10.


11.


12.


13.


14.


15.


16.


17.


18.


19.


20.


21.


22.


23.


24.


Broadway, east of the park
25.


26.


27.


Woodbine
28.


29.


30.


Illinois
31.


32.


33.


34.


35.


Bryson
36.


37.


38.


39.


Indiana
40.


41.


Baldwin
42.


43.


44. (nice view, IMO, looking across the valley toward the East Side)


45.


Madison
46.


Elm
47.


48.


49.


50.


51.


52.


53.

[tgbwc]

#28 would look so much better with a few days of landscaping work.

#34 shows some promise (looks like the house on the right has some "good" work being done to it).

#39 is really interesting to me.

Is #41 a fraternity house?

[No_Recess]

You should turn over pic #44 to YPD. The security cameras in the projects missed the double homicide that happened at nearly the same time you were snapping pics. It was only 1.5 miles away. You could be sitting on some key evidence.

[JR_C]

Originally Posted by tgbwc

#28 would look so much better with a few days of landscaping work.

They need to fix their gutters, first.

#34 shows some promise (looks like the house on the right has some "good" work being done to it).

The 3 houses in pics #34 and #35 were all connected--many years ago--by a brick annex building, to make an assisted living facility. The neighbors tell me that this property was recently bought by doctors who plan to renovate 2 of the houses to make offices. Unfortunately, they are going to demolish the house on the far left, because there are liens on that house from before the properties were combined into one.

#39 is really interesting to me.

It is an interesting house. I haven't explored it myself, I'm told the landscaping to the east is/was amazing. I guess there is still a pond, and a lot of original hardscape remaining.

While there have been a number of people interested in renovating it, nothing has been able to get done. It's land bank eligible, and I'm told some of the people are put off by all the cash needed up front, just to purchase the house. So, if the house is eventually demolished, we hope to restore the landscaping, and make it a pocket park.

Is #41 a fraternity house?

House #40 is a frat house, but #41 is not. (although I think it used to be)

Originally Posted by No_Recess

You should turn over pic #44 to YPD. The security cameras in the projects missed the double homicide that happened at nearly the same time you were snapping pics. It was only 1.5 miles away. You could be sitting on some key evidence.

I don't think my phone camera has the power to capture that much detail. Anyway, it's been solved; they shot each other.

[SorryIMovedBack]

it's been solved; they shot each other.

[JR_C]

After decades of decline, Wick Park neighborhood shows signs of revival

[ColdAilment]

What was the main industry in Youngstown that dried up causing the city population to dwindle and all of this neglect to happen?

[JR_C]

Originally Posted by ColdAilment

What was the main industry in Youngstown that dried up causing the city population to dwindle and all of this neglect to happen?

Steel.

[canadian citizen]

I have read the entire post, and looked at the photos................

The very first thing that I noticed......no people. Did you go out of your way to take photos, without any people ?

I live in Toronto, and was born here. Our residential streets are alive with residents, who are out and doing things. Kids are playing, or riding their bikes , older teens are at the park, playing sports, and the dog walkers are standing and talking to each other. On nice August day, like today, the front porches are full of people reading the paper, and or watering their plants. Cars are being washed and waxed and the ice cream truck is at the corner.

In your large photo section, I counted TWO humans, one in a car. Where are the people ?

Jim B. In Toronto.