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It's better when the grocery store is uphill from your place than when it's downhill, though! Easier to tackle the hill without bags of groceries...

They say on their known issues page that they're aware of the body-of-water issue, and that the solution may be Google's forthcoming walking directions thing... Cincinnati actually has four walkable bridges, I believe - Clay Wade Baily, Roebling Suspension, Taylor-Southgate and the L&N - but yeah, once you get outside of downtown, your next walking option downriver is probably Anderson Ferry, and upriver it's probably the ferry around Augusta...or else I guess it's Maysville, and the next bridge...

I emailed them, thanked them for the project, and gave them the suggestion of incorporating topography...they mentioned Google was going to be creating walking directions soon, and I said that would be great for me, because of the river between me and half the places they mention...it will be interesting to see if Google takes topography into account in its walking directions version...

A correction, and some added data: Here's a corrected labeling of the buildings: First, the Edgecliff at the Point is actually completely hidden by the Edgecliff - the building you see here is River Terrace on Ingleside, which I believe are condo's, but would love to be corrected if I have that wrong! And second, I finally figured out what the "not sure" building is (with the help of Bill Cobb's pictures) - the Riverview Senior Center, 2538 Hackberry: Here's a map: Blue = The Edgecliff Yellow = River Terrace Green = Riverview Senior Center Orange = The Madison Say, I keep forgetting to ask - I've been labeling the two buildings on the far horizon as "The Madison", but I believe the Madison is the one on Vista - does anyone know what the other one is? And many thanks to everyone for all your kind words!

I used to complain about the produce at that IGA - until I moved to Walnut Hills...my Kroger blows ass...

A crappy cell-phone shot out front of Cincinnati's Joseph-Beth Bookseller from last night a little after midnight: ...up until 4:30am reading last night, I'm on page 196 (I read slowly), but plumbing is intervening in my reading plans right now...alas...hopefully will get back to it soon...

Holy crap, is Joseph Beth packed...it's gotta be violating the fire codes...so I told my wife I had to step outside - it's just wall-to-wall excited children in witch outfits and lightning-bolt foreheads, and is easily 85°+ in there - and I made it into Longhorn before they locked the doors...ah, sweet sweet liquor...

...now to find partner...hmm...

I guess this is a random development...I was walking to the bus stop this week and saw some folks outside the old abortion clinic, cutting down brush and such...went up and said hello, have you bought this place? Yes, in fact...and they're the Church of the Bretheren...ah, grand. I welcomed them to the neighborhood, but will admit my disappointment...they told me they all live 40-50 miles away, which means we'll have an empty structure 6 days a week, and then Quakers coming out our ears on Sunday... I'd kind of hoped for a Chinese carry-out joint, but given the building's history, I guess that was out of the question...I'll post a picture later...gotta run now - dinner, then waiting in line for Harry Potter!

I love the "DOB/Died/Cause of death" style updates...with the photos, it really brings home what it means to lose structures...sure, sometimes it's time to say goodbye, but sometimes it is most definitely negligent home-icide... Catching up...too many little comments I'd have made at the time of posting that are out of date by now, but I wanted to mention these two: Absolutely fantastic! I believe they did some upgrade work on the steps from the Elsinore Towers up to the Art Museum last year at some point as well - would be interesting to learn more about their plans and schedule for upgrades - unless someone already knows and I've missed the appropriate threads? Anyway, thanks so much for the update, TCK! That's a staircase I'd have completely missed, no doubt - now I'll make it a point to check it out! That area is really going to become a pet-care hub...there's at least one animal hospital right at Conrey and Kemper, maybe two pet care facilities of some sort, I forget...this is just up the street from that. And it's right next to the Dorothy and Richard Francis Recreation area - basically, a huge-ass parking lot, with some soccer fields and a walking trail...great place for puppies to get some exercise! Er...and then die.

That's hilarious...yeah, they do seem to be more from the rose-colored-glasses school of criticism, at least in the reviews I've read...

It's definitely a good concept - I love the idea of measuring odd qualities, and making them comparable across different situations - but it does seem like the flaws are too great to allow one to do that at this point...

I seem to remember Channel 23 as being a version of Channel 5 that got worse reception most of the time, and had a music video show on at 7pm on weekends, but other than that, it had Dorothy Fuldheim and Ted Henry and Wilma Smith and ABC network programming...I mean, I don't really think that the death of what was, in essense, a repeater beacon, is much of an indicator of anything...but then, I haven't been in town since the mid-90's, so maybe things have changed...

It's not a destruction - it's an homage, a tangent, an appreciation, an interpretation...let a thousand flowers bloom, maaaannn...

LOL...looking back at my list of walkable amenities, it appears to assume that I'm Christ Almighty and can walk on water...Walnut Hills is definitely a bit under one mile from Dayton, KY - but if you want to keep your feet dry, it's more than three miles... But that's kind of a unique situation...a more serious shortcoming - or maybe a more commonly experienced shortcoming, is that topography isn't accounted for. Someone living on Lafayette in Clifton may only be a half mile from the Kroger's on Kenard, but ain't nobody gonna heft his groceries up that hill!

actually, I've been able to do the same myself - we lived on Ludlow on Clifton, and had an IGA a few blocks down the street...that was fantastic...not the same selection as the Kroger at the bottom of the hill, but more than enough for most any meal...i'd stop at the wine store on the way home, and life was good. But that's a full-sized grocery store, albeit a smallish one...so if that's the size of store you mean, I'm all up in dat...

The beauty of a grocery store is being able to buy fresh fish, canned goods, cat litter, paper towels, wine, fresh produce, a birthday card and frozen pizzas, all in one place, with a variety of brands and low prices. The number of corner markets that would be required to reproduce that selection and convenience would be astonishing, and I wouldn't want to have to go five places to do what I could do at one place. I guess that makes me a bad urbanist, but I don't really care - I want to get my groceries and get the hell home, where I can start cooking and drinking with my wife and friends...

Well, the building was purchased five years ago, so I suspect that if the plan had been to redevelop it, that would have happened a while ago. And if you google 2181 Victory Parkway in Cincinnati, you get a number of businesses located there - Chilltime Productions, Cincinnati Academy of Design, Neighborhood Development Corporation Association of Greater Cincinnati (link is to a Citybeat article on them), Audley & Associates (home appraisers), Ward/THG Insurance Adjusters, CCSI & Associates (accounting), Hargrove Contracting & Engineering, etc., etc. Of course, that's not dispositive of anything - for instance, the Greater Cincinnati Library Consortium came up with 2181 Victory Parkway, but if you go to their website, they seem to have relocated to Blue Ash. But it seems to me that there's nothing in the works for that building as things currently stand...

I suspect this would be be added to this thread: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=3076.90 ...it's a very welcome update to the last article Grasscat posted there, "Prosecutor looking into petition fraud" (I knew I'd heard about this case somewhere here!)

56/100...

...and no doubt, a Morton's in Southfield, MI is gonna be very different from one in Cincinnati...but as the price go up, so do my standards. I dropped $150+ on that meal for me and my wife, with drinks and side dishes and tip, and it was pretty terrible. A less expensive restaurant, I'd forgive a bad first experience and try again (like I did with Indigo in Hyde Park); or a local restaurant, even if it's expensive, I'd forgive a bad first experience and try again (like I did with Tink's). But a chain steak house that charges out the butt? When you can't trip in this city without hitting a Jeff Ruby's valet guy? No, I don't think I'll be back...

I had the worst steak I've ever endured at a Morton's - $45 filet, and it tasted like they didn't bother to unwrap the plastic wrap before they seared it...so even though I wish them the best, I don't plan on trying this one out anytime soon...

The dude rocks... Will you still be doing your Random Cincinnati updates? I imagine those had to take a TON of time, but they sure did rock out...shoot, I'm way behind on them, though...

That's fantastic...

That is a truly fantastic shot!