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Just out of curiosity, what kind of neighborhood is this? With the small park running down the center of the street, it looks like this used to be a really nice area. I have driven through the area to goto the market a couple of times.
BAD. This is where my mom grew up in the 40's and 50's and yes, it USED to be a really nice neighborhood. It was mostly Italians back then. It is pretty rough now though. Used to have a lot of family owned business (grocery stores, delis, etc) where the owners owned the whole building and would live in the floors above the business on the main floor. My parents have a picture somewhere of the house my mom grew up in on Central Park from the 20's or 30's when her parents first bought it and there was a trolly line that went down the middle of the street and it was very nice. Nothing like that today though I'm afraid.
Thanks for the info. I was just thinking if the neighborhood was safe, this be a great place to relax and read a book. Have you ever heard of any neighborhoods going back to thier former stature?
well, I guess South Wedge is in the process of doing that now. Charlotte definitely cleaned up over the past 10 years or so too. I'm not sure if Corn Hill was ever considered a "Bad" neighborhood but it is certainly the most preserved old neighborhoods in the city going back to the 1830's.
I'm not sure if Corn Hill was ever considered a "Bad" neighborhood but it is certainly the most preserved old neighborhoods in the city going back to the 1830's.
Corn Hill is disdained as a "bad" neighborhood by many of the upper-middle class homeowners in the East Ave/Park Ave area. It never really was significantly blighted but it has certainly improved since the 80s.
I mean, East Ave/Park avenue area has some great houses no doubt....but Corn Hill has some of the most beautiful old houses I've ever seen...many of them nicer than the typical house you'd find on Barrington or Oxford streets. And yeah most of the really nice neighborhoods in the city like Park Avenue, East Avenue, Cobbs Hill. Highland, and Browncroft never really declined in the first place so I wouldn't consider them "turnaround" neighborhoods....but really good neighborhoods none the less. Like I said the only neighborhoods that I can think of that most would agree "declined" and either have or currently are "turning around" would be South Wedge, Charlotte, and arguably Corn Hill (depending on whether or not you think that neighborhood ever went down hill in the first place).
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