CRA/LA Joins Effort to Clean Up & Improve Streets, Plus Create a Park Plan for School

For years, kids and parents walking to Nevin Avenue Elementary School ran an obstacle course.

Broken couches, TV sets, tables and chairs littered the sidewalk on 32nd Street in front of two graffiti-adorned sewing factory buildings next to the school. Around the corner, parked pickup trucks loaded with recycled garbage hugged the narrow street near the school’s main entrance. Drivers dumped truck contents they couldn’t sell, leaving piles of rubble behind, hazardous in winter when below-standard street lighting plunged the area into darkness by 4:30 p.m.  Read more