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Hey mike I am 1/16 cherokee that makes us more native to this area then all these foreign invaders coming into our neighborhood but we welcome all who will make it a better place. chahlahgeehee wohneesgee :-D

This alarming report about Cinti schools examines dropout rates, functional illiteracy, and much more. http://www.socialareasofcincinnati.org/report/Chapter6.html

I think I have a pic of nate and a friend somewhere being idiots at octoberfest a few years ago. The protest signs they were carrying were anti-police and they blocked my view of Mini-Me on stage doing the chicken dance!! :x The police had to "remove them" because they were getting kazoos tossed at them. LOL

Nice!! I am really interested in the areas of OTR that are way off the beaten path and you found some great shots! Have you travelled up to mohawk , Renner and stonewall area off of mcmicken? There are some sweet scenes up there! :wink:

Here are some real postcards that might be of interest for you guys. Somebody please buy them and scan them I'm poor! LOL 50 cincinnati postcards from 1900-1910 http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/clt/121264816.html

Hamilton? Dayton? middletown? or maybe youngstown.

I care! it's sad to see any 19th century building go I don't care how big or small in the west end or OTR The only infill those lots will ever get is trash.

A few years ago the only thing holding back OTR development was restoc, the drop inn center and Hart realty property holdings. Times have changed and hart lost his portfolio and restoc became just a minor nuisance "to me anyway" I knew the time was ripe and the area and buildings would be saved, heck the buildings survived the period between the 50's and 70's the hardest time for the west end which was destroyed. But in 2006 unexpectantly we had to worry about losing 22 historic buildings in the heart of OTR for a suburban style school which will if current trend holds will be defunct a few years after it's built. I just want things to stay the way they are. NO CPS school at mercer commons, NO major jail expansion at broadway commons and NO citylink! We all know without these bad developments the area will flourish. It just takes time and I'm in for the long haul.

The first prospect hill door is located in corporation alley at the Hiram st steps. The house's neighborhood nickname is the Alley House. At night look up to the window above the door and see a glowing goose :-) What # are you on? I tackle at least one every weekend.

Looks kinda like those UMMM girls but in the 80's

Hi, great pictures! The shots of doors in prospect hill were nice too!! :-D That last shot looks like the south side of magnolia st. A couple of those houses were for sale awhile back.

For awhile I was considering an investment in a property in the mohawk area and while taking pictures of the property on a 3rd visit a bum was starting to come out of a barricaded "except for back window" home a few properties away. If it is this bad now I can't imagine it getting any better when citylink is built. Sadly I have given up on the west end, brighton area for now unless citylink plan fails.

I try to stay positive about the area, OTR, Downtown and the hillsides because I love it so much here and there is so much potential but I have gotten very frustrated with the BIG projects that are planned lately. Demolition of 22 buildings by CPS in the middle of OTR. Citylink which will be a magnet for homeless of the region in the west end. The residents of pendleton and downtown who will have to put a with a jail right in their front door. I get a bad vibe every time I walk past the jail, I see inmates looking out their small windows. If I was sheriff The jail would be in a dungeon underground with no windows, no television or weights and crappy food! Make it so bad they will never want to end up there ever again.. If only the workhouse were still in camp washington....Sorry I had to steam a bit. :wink: I can see nicks frustration those who live here or have business here are working so hard to make things better and these issues keep trying to knock us down.

A neighbor recently attended a crossroads meeting here is what happened Subject: Fw: Crossroads meeting Sunday Jan. 15, 2006 CityLink second copy 01/16/2006 10:22 An FYI... Crossroads Community Church held a Crossroads members only informational meeting on CityLink. This meeting took place on the Chapel on Sunday, January 15, 2006, at 7:00 PM. Copious notes were taken and a highlight of the evening follows. Tim Senff - Staff director for Reachout at Crossroads and Chris Macklin head of interaction with City Gospel Mission were leading the meeting. Approximately 250-300 people were in attendance. Tim Senff asked the audience to hold their questions as we would have a question and answer session at the end of the presentation. Tim mentioned the they had a diverse group of people tonight: - Crossroads/CityLink junkies - those that show up for anything Crossroads does - people who are curious about CityLink - people with varying levels of questions i.e. have seen protesters, media, have had friends talk to them about CityLink - people who are not excited about CityLink Tim stated everyone was welcome and that this was an informational meeting with 2 main purposes. 1) Info 2) they want you to feel our passion, catch the passion and be an advocate for CityLink. Overview of CityLink - Campus of compassionate service provided by different agencies providing holistic help in 1 location. Goal - Help people break the cycle of poverty, to achieve dreams, and have hope. Logo - Relief - Relationship - Real Life Change. A video of Mark Stecher (President of OneCity) was played. Mark mentioned the following points: - we identified what works and what doesn't in Cinti. - met with everyone we could - did focus groups - found most services in Cinti based on relief not changing cycle of poverty - simple solution - relationships, it is not enough to give money, need to get hands dirty - dream is to get real life change A film clip from the movie "Miracle" was played. "Change the way we play, change the team chemistry." Back to video of Mark: - Cinti services are spread out - people have to walk to get services - key ingredient from research - put services under 1 roof - services like dental, legal, game room, literacy, hair salon ... - services will give relationship; Relief - Relationship - Out of poverty Back to Tim Senff: 2 key points: - not good stuff happening - not winning, not playing as team "God wants us to change the game - we need to provide relationships." - research shows relationships are necessary in life - relationships are messy - take time - God needs us to form relationships. - there will be staff at CityLink, need volunteers to build relationships, You are needed Kirk shared his life experience as a graduate of City Gospel Mission's Exodus program. He has been clean 17 months and is now on staff at City Gospel Mission. Back to Tim Senff: - "I think this is a good idea, I believe this is God's idea, we take this seriously, Leadership of Crossroads have fasted over this and prayed about this." - mentioned MLK 's "I Have A Dream" speech. Tim : " We have a dream as well, poverty broken. people with hope, peoples lives are going to be changed. The Body of Christ in Cinti is going to be different because of CityLink" - Four pillars of CityLink: Health & wellness, Recreation, Employment & Education, Life skills - Core Tenants: Lord's Gym, Crossroads Health Center, City Gospel Mission, Jobs Plus. - "Mall of compassionate services." - Lord's Gym and Crossroads Health Center ARE NOT MOVING TO CityLink - they will have a satellites at CityLink **sexual predators will be told CityLink can't help you and they will be outsourced. - financial services will be offered - "Nothing is set in stone." (THIS SCARES ME TO DEATH) - went over the timeline of CityLink: 2004: 10 founding partners, research, got core tenants 2006: 22 churches involved, 150 volunteers, community leaders, closed on bank Street. 2008: Development, 1000 volunteers Grand opening 2007-2008. - CityLink did most complete research in history - qualitative & quantitative research, focus groups, visited Path Mall in LA, a place in Houston, invited hundreds of churches to join them. - Criteria for Site: - talked to the West End Community council & Pastors, sent letters to residents, cleaned up a lot in the West End, "Cops said cleaning this lot would be a blessing to them. We re- moved 400 tires from the lot." CLAP CLAP CLAP - Saturday, May 20, 2006 program "GO CINCINNATI" - we will be rocking Cinti service wise paint buildings, work in schools with major emphasis in the West End. 9 Criteria for CityLink site: 1) Population: close to those who need services, highest level of poverty, want inner city decided on 800 Bank St, (after looking at 19 other sites) Bank St. will be main location will have satellites in Oakley, Loveland, Madisonville in future. Gave following stats: West End: poverty 55%, Not completed high school 43%, No jobs 63%, not land owner 80%, 2) Size: want 5 acres, accessibility, affordable, parking for staff, volunteers. Bank Street is 5 acres bldg. will be 100,000 sq. ft. green space, parking. 3) Accessibility: walk distance near bus lines & highway, accessible to city & SURROUNDING AREAS. (THIS IS SCARY) 4) Parking - for hundreds of volunteers and staff 5) Safety - design, lighting, needs to be safe safety is a concern in the West End - Security - will work with the West End so it is a Blessing to the area. 6) Affordable 7) Zoning - Chris Macklin said "it conforms to zoning ... no problems there ... no issue there..." WHAT ABOUT ZONING APPEAL? HELLO? 8) Other - no environmental issues - looked at Queen City Barrel site 9) Available for sale - 800 Bank Street is the ideal site - we will be a blessing to the West End and our City. We will be a blessing to the West End and surrounding areas by providing employment services, mentors, we will be a good neighbor because we will be an employer, we will do community service projects, we will create greater interest in the West End, people will visit the neighborhood & businesses, more attractive neighborhood with CityLink building there. "Some of you will want to move there!" CityLink will be an architectural jewel." - HOW TO GET INVOLVED: - attend GO CINCINNATI leader meetings Feb. 8 & 12 - Prayer - Service projects - various opportunities LOVE SQUAD for protesters to provide them with pizza & coffee (LAUGHTER & CLAPPING!!!!) Tim then ended the meeting with these words: " People have good concerns... we are aware of this, if you have specific comments or questions stay after with us and we will answer them." He then took off his microphone and ended the meeting. About 20 people stayed and bombarded them with questions. But the majority of the people left. THEY DO NOT WANT THE CONGREGATION TO HEAR ANY NEGATIVE FEED BACK!

Another unit went under contract last week.

Interesting vantage point! To the right of the photo north of the kroger garage and Art academy buildings you can see the area where 22 buildings would be torn down for the new washington park school at mercer commons. What was 3cdc thinking??!!

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He must not like his dad very much.Why did he buy in colerain township? That area is going downhill.

I was doing a google search for cameras in cincinnati and came across this article. http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/11/329338.shtml surveillance cameras in Cincinnati author: SCP report from a Surveillance Camera Player Cincinnati, Ohio Between 19 and 22 November 2005, Bill Brown of the Surveillance Camera Players (New York) was in Cincinnati, Ohio, thanks to the efforts of Kim, an art history professor at the University of Cincinnati. An "urban" campus, the University of Cincinnati is quite separate from (to the north of) the city's downtown area, which is only populated from 9 am to 5 pm during the work week, and is completely empty during the week-ends. :-o In between the two areas lies the "Over-The-Rhine" neighborhood, a small black ghetto that includes entire blocks of abandoned houses. No doubt students only come downtown to see Cincinnati Reds baseball or Cincinnati Bengals football games, which are played in water-front stadiums along the Ohio River. Otherwise, they stay away. Cincinnati is supposedly the seventh most-segregated city in the USA. It looks like it. :x homepage: http://www.notbored.org/cincinnati.html

I also saw it a couple of years ago. It's pretty dang cool though :-)

I forgot about this site and thought you guys might enjoy it! There are some amazing stories, history and pictures. What would ohio's cities look like if there was a nuclear accident?? http://www.kiddofspeed.com

There is a glue factory where horses are incinerated at the 104 and 71 at certain times you can see a puff of black smoke come from the smokestack..

oh that is bad news about st paulus kirche :-( I heard that there was a satanic cult using that church recently. That area is losing badly the last year or so. There was a fire about a couple of blocks away yesterday and the 4-5 story building will probably be lost, it's near the corner of central pkwy and liberty.