Photo by John Hoff
This photo really doesn't do the macaroni salad justice. Joy Teachout used cucumbers from the Polish woman's garden, as well as some small, tender yellow zucchini from her own backyard garden.
While we sat around talking, an old man with deep roots in the neighborhood told me his wife's family used to live right across the street, in both 3010 6th St. N. (now a rental owned by Phil Kleindl's outfit) and 430 30th Ave. N. (Raze order slapped on it, recently)
I asked him if he knew the family who used to live at my (former) property, 3016 6th St. N.
He said he did, but not well. Nice folks. They had some children. That was all he could recall. I asked him if anything "interesting" ever happened on the block, back in the old days.
"Well," he said. "There used to be a moonshine still in the basement of 3010. It was set up so the vapors would go into the furnace, and nobody could smell the distillery."
The things you learn about the neighborhood at National Night Out--!
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http://www.citypages.com/2008-08-06/news/has-the-foreclosure-crisis-pacified-minneapolis-most-dangerous-neighborhoods/
ReplyDeleteNice try, but blogger dot com cuts those URLS short. I did manage to access the article...an interesting discussion about whether the foreclosure crisis and all the vacant homes resulting from it are behind the (alleged statistical) drop in crime on the North Side.
ReplyDeleteI think maybe it's a fluke of police being given too few resources. If they can't show up for a 911 call for half an hour, and the drug dealer just walks away, then there won't be a drug arrest or a violent scuffle in the course of a drug arrest or a seizure of a weapon.
I'd like to see a comparison of 911 response times versus crime rates. I think the two may be more closely linked than anybody wants to admit.
Or not. I could be wrong.
But also consider crime PER CAPITA. If you had exactly the same number of robberies, but 30 percent less people in the area, has crime gone up or down? Do people feel safer or less safe?