“Neighborhood Project”: Week Five, Ace Boxing In Lincoln Village

 
Listen:  Like most people who grew up in Milwaukee, I think I know the city pretty well. However, it seems like these two months of the Neighborhood Project have allowed me to just start learning about the city. With each new restaurant or church or kitchen table I got to know, my picture of the city became [...]

“Neighborhood Project”: Week Five, A Troublesome Corner Store in Johnsons Park

    
Listen:  Somehow, a corner store in Johnsons Park had become a destination, a magnet for suspicious business. Perhaps it was the neighborhood’s past — eight years ago, this kind of corner store would hardly be a surprise. But for a burgeoning neighborhood whose residents had invested more than just their life savings, this was not acceptable. 
Tony [...]

“Neighborhood Project”: Week Five, Shea Park In Silver City

Listen:  Each time I spent longer than a few minutes in Silver City, somebody would beam about Shea Park, an unexpected pocket park on National Avenue. I heard that it was an emblem of how a neighborhood could work together. I heard the community made it happen. I heard it won plenty of awards. Sounds like [...]

“Neighborhood Project”: Week Five, Block Cleanup in Sherman Park

Listen: After a long Milwaukee winter, the snow and ice melts away, revealing the forgotten landscape of Spring. Grass, flowers, leaves, petrichor, and all that trash people thought they could throw in the snow for some reason.

A few weeks ago, I woke up (relatively) early on a Saturday and biked to 40th and Burleigh for a [...]