Check the article on the front page of today's Youngstown newspaper. Notice how few city park facilities are located on the west side of Youngstown. The fifth ward west of Mill Creek Park has only one park.
Not having read the article yet, I would guess this is because--until relatively recently--Mill Creek Park was a city park.
Had it not been for the generosity of two families the North Side would never have had Wick Park and Crandall Park, but I agree with you Jay, it's sad that the West Side has been ignored when it comes to the city park system. When I lived on the West Side I lived so close to Mill Creek park that all I had to do was walk down a flight of stairs and was in Mill Creek Park at Lake Glacier, and when I went to Chaney (the new school) I could cut through Mill Creek Park to get there, so I never gave thought to other parks.
Here is a list of all the city parks as of 2012 from the park department:
http://www.cityofyoungstownoh.com/Uploads/201219105026_2012PropertyBook.pdf (http://www.cityofyoungstownoh.com/Uploads/201219105026_2012PropertyBook.pdf)
Mill Creek Park is on the west side and if that park isn't enough for you, then you just cannot be satisfied. the city should shut down these small, little used parks. There just isn't enough money to maintain all this superfluous stuff anymore.
the pks that were mentioned are not actual pks but pockets of nieghborhoods,
QuoteMill Creek Park was a city park.
FYI
Mill Creek Park was a Youngstown Township Park although Youngstown Township went out of existence many years earlier.
Park No. 4 on the west side is Borts Swimming Pool. This swimming pool has been closed for many years now.
Quote from: iwasthere on September 26, 2012, 03:56:48 PM
the pks that were mentioned are not actual pks but pockets of nieghborhoods,
so what is that ???
History of Youngstown Township
http://mahoninghistory.blogspot.com/2007/10/definition-of-youngstown-township.html (http://mahoninghistory.blogspot.com/2007/10/definition-of-youngstown-township.html)
SOURCE: Mahoning Valley Historical Society
Quote from: Rushblvd on September 26, 2012, 04:24:00 PM
so what is that ???
a fancy way of saying this nieghborhood is more swanker then yours.
I say that our area ... Fifth Ave. and Gypsey Lane area have it all over anywhere else in the city ... nay the county. ;D Now that's really swank. ;D
Where else in the city can you have two beautiful parks and a swankey golf course all wrapped up in well manicured lawns and topped with beautiful mansions? ;D
i agree with you tt.
Hear hear 8)
;D And a magnificant public auditorium more beautiful than Severance Hall in Cleveland. ;D
Quote from: Towntalk on September 26, 2012, 08:02:14 PM
I say that our area ... Fifth Ave. and Gypsey Lane area have it all over anywhere else in the city ... nay the county. ;D Now that's really swank. ;D
as paul harvey would say, here is the rest of the story: fifth ave recieved a major facelift under pat ungaro who lived on fifth ave while he was mayor. it pays off financially andbeautifully when the ceo that heads your town lives on your st, ave, blvd ect........
That is true, but that is just one grand avenue and if you were to go up the streets that lead off Fifth you would see equally splendid homes with manicured lawns. Remember that this area was where the blue bloods of the steel and banking industries built their digs back in the good old days and they didn't build on the cheap.
But getting back to Jay's premise, could it possably be why there are so few city parks on the west side is because the city could never compete with Mill Creek Park?
Consider just how much of that park is on the West Side ... everything west of Glenwood Avenue all the way to the city limits. My goodness, the park has every feature a family could want and then some.
Stambaugh Golf Course is nice, but it's only nine holes ... Mill Creek Golf is a full course that holds compitition golf. No city park has an ampatheater or a Fellows Riverside Garden. The westsiders are blessed and really the envy of the rest of the city.
one of my many digs was an apt overlooking mlck pk that was in the Glen area breath taking on all ends.