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["Thomas C. Meggs" <tom AT plik.net>]

And the primary reason for such good land use was the town had its advent
before the rise of the automobile. It's an old factory town in upstate New
York. All cities _used_ to be like this. The triangle is the way it is
because it has had a major economic rise after the advent of the
automobile. Cars breed sprawl growth.

Regards,
Tom

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Diane M. Kurilecz wrote:

> Southern Village is a suburban version of the neighborhood where I grew
> up in Yonkers, NY.  Within a one block radius of my apartment, we had:
>  - A public park, one entrance right on our dead end;
>  - Lake Avenue, with many shops (with apartments above) -- a small
> grocery, two bars, a sandwich shop, a post office, a laundry, a dry
> cleaners, a small five-and-ten, a barbershop, a beauty parlor, a bakery,
> the local Democratic Ward office (which held many parties), a pizzeria,
> and more.
>  - Lake Avenue was also the starting point for the Yonkers Marathon,
> which was the toughest marathon in the nation and a training ground for
> the better-known New York and Boston marathons (they've changed the
> route, though).
>  - Lake Avenue was the starting point for all the local parades, held on
> each major holiday; everyone participated by walking the route.
>  - The Catholic church, monastary, convent, grade school, high school,
> and fields (where we held fairs and special events)
>  - The public high school.
>  - The local police station.
>  - The local fire house (we played on the equipment, and the firemen
> showed us how to use the poles).
>  - A bus stop, which my father used to take to work.
>  - There was a mix of housing -- our (typical) nine-unit four-story
> walk-up apartment house, several others like it, one huge (30 unit?)
> apartment house, many single family homes.  Most of the single-family
> homes in my neighborhood were modest, middle-income homes, but just a
> few blocks away was North Broadway, where the homes were huge and often
> had swimming pools.
>
> I loved that neighborhood when I was a child.  The only important thing
> we were missing was a library.  Mom, of course, would drive us there
> once a week (three times a week in the summer).  We could also walk or
> bike or take the bus two or three miles to get to one of several
> libraries.  Yonkers also had several museums and a planetarium within
> reach of us children.  We walked, biked, and rose the bus all over town
> (mostly the northwest section of the city).
>
> ***diane
>
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