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I've set up a group on Yahoo, lowerburnspark, for people in my immediate neighborhood. The rough Ann Arbor boundaries are State, Stadium, Granger, and Packard, and it includes Brooklyn, Gardner, Henry, Montclair, Ferndale, Westminster, Golden, East Park Place, Rose, White, and little Sycamore streets. It's in the Fourth Ward, people vote at the Coliseum, and the elementary school is Burns Park School. The city park there is Rose White Park and we're all wondering what the neighborhood grocery store, the Food and Drug Mart, is going to turn into once it's renovated.
I'm hoping to gather up at the very least the people who do neighborhood organizing for block parties on those streets so that a few more people know who each other are. It might be too wide a geographic area to really feel super neighborly, though that's the range of my nightly neighborhood walks with the boys.
The iNeighbors project mentioned below sounded like a good idea last fall, but it didn't take off on its own, and some more flexible tools seems like a good idea.
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Murph at Common Monkeyflower wrote about the iNeighbors project at MIT which is setting up a server for people in neighborhoods to have a web site with directories and other useful information so that people know people down the street from them.
My block has a very handy and useful Yahoo group that's been perking along with a message every few weeks for a few years, and we do know our neighbors a bit better for that. Now that Saul is going to start at the neighborhood preschool I think it's time to branch out a bit. I'll want to keep the email list for the street because it works pretty well.
So anyway, see the Lower Burns Park site for my immediate digs, and the Burns Park site for the greater neighborhood and elementary school and park. We'll see what happens.
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