By Mark | February 25, 2016
Almost five years ago now, I interviewed a new transplant to Ypsi by the name of Lee Azus as part of our ongoing Ypsilanti Immigration series. Azus, a former San Francisco bookstore owner, as you might recall, was anxious to hit the ground running and really get to know this community which he had chosen […]
Posted in Architecture, History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged ABC-Polk Brothers Recreation Center, Arbor Manor, black business districts, blight, Bobby Franks, Brewster-Wheeler Recreation Center, Brown Chapel, Chicago, Currie's barbershop, Dan Boatwright, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eastern Michigan University, Elliott Currie, eviction, fair housing, Federal Housing Administration, Gault Shopping Center, Great Migration, Harriet Street, Harry S. Truman, housing, Housing Act of 1949, Housing Act of 1954, housing discrimination, Lee Azus, Leopold and Loeb, Mattie Dorsey, mortgages, murder, Paradise Valley, Parkridge Community Center, Parkridge Urban Renewal Area, poverty, racism, recreation centers, redevelopment, segregation, slums, subsidized housing, Tulsa, Tulsa race riot, urban renewal, World War II, Ypsilanti Business and Professional League |
By Mark | February 6, 2010
In yesterday’s discussion about the new Chinese restaurant on Washtenaw Avenue, the question of boundaries came up again. Specifically, someone suggested that the new restaurant might not be in Ypsi at all, but in Ann Arbor. (It’s not, by the way. It’s technically in the Charter Township of Ypsilanti.) Well, it reminded me that I’d […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 23, Asia City Restaurant, boundaries, boundary issues, County Board of Commissioners, Golfside, Huron Parkway, maps and legends, Michigan House of Representatives, Murph, Pittsfield Township, Richard Murphy, USPS, Washtenaw Avenue, Ypsilanti Township |
By Mark | September 3, 2009
Until today, when I read about the police shutting it down, I was unaware of the tent city behind Arborland Mall known as Camp Take Notice. Apparently the big crackdown by authorities came on Wednesday, when Caleb Poirier, the leader of the camp, which is said to have between 30 and 60 inhabitants, was arrested […]
