The first photo showing a brick barrier is down around the Cadieux and Jefferson area and has been there for years! There is only one street leading into that small complex.
As for the Van Elslander mansion, they're at the end of my sister's street and is on the lake side of Lake Shore Drive. While they certainly have a fence separating the grounds from Lake Shore Drive (as do many of the estates along that route), it ain't a secured gated community and anyone can turn into their driveway and cruise up to the house if they want.
As for the comment about Kercheval, where the hell did that come from? There ain't no barriers on Kercheval, never has been and never will be...........
And the slam on the parks? Give me a F'n break! They're owned and maintained by the respective communities and paid for by the taxes and membership dues of the residents. Why shouldn't they be restricted to residents only?
But its what FReepers want to hear. They don’t care about facts.
I’m no fan of city living but If I were I would have no problem living in Mexicantown. Briggs is another neighborhood on its way up.
Responses like are typical in this thread are a perfect example of why conservatism will never win. Long on consensus and short on facts. Rather than claiming credit for the good that has come about as a result of GOP control of the state, we get monkeys with clubs bashing because they aren’t bright enough to do anything else.
Unless I’m mistaken, that’s Goethe Avenue, but the picture’s taken from the GPP side.
I count 27 streets going from Detroit into GPP. With two of them “fenced off.”
The remaining streeting entering GPP are from Grosse Point City.