Then & Now: Over-the-Rhine

Clyde Gray takes you on a tour.

[@ompaloompa4970]

I lived in the OTR as a child on pleasant street and went to 6th district school. My grandparents were immigrants from Italy and Hungary..

[@Blaze-jb6if]

Nice report dudes. From Ohio of course.

[@1060michaelg]

And as you build your "bar scene" and "restaurant scene" and "small business scene", I ask-- "Where have all the poor people gone? Gentrification ALWAYS spells TRAGEDY for the poor who's neighborhood is being "spruced up" for the tourist trade and to attract developers with dollars signs for pupils. I have nothing against saving OTR-- it's beautiful...always has been...but I'd like to see, JUST ONCE, the people of the gentrified neighborhood TRULY incorporated into the landscape. There ought to be a provision that a hefty percentage of the new jobs in these restaurants, clubs, bars, are given to OTR RESIDENTS.

[@angelmission]

Without business's, there are no jobs for the poor. So, they are stuck in stagnant neighborhoods with no opportunities. This is what opens the doors to drug and human traffickers and crime. It is how they survive. What is your solution?

[@travisbaldridge23]

For many years immigrants came here with nothing and faced real discrimination with no assistance. They pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and built places like OTR. People nowadays have every kind of hand out possible to give them a stepping stone and still choose to destroy instead of create. It starts in the home, which needs strong foundations of family values, heritage, culture, tradition, and community. That is everything that the modern world wants to destroy and replace with laizze-faire individualism.

[@beverlynelsin8833]

otr has been changed so many times it still ends up the same way broke poor ppl on drugs and alcohol because all they ever make it is bars restraunlts and clinics thrift store only this time ppl have to many cars down ther witch otr is not made for more cars it's a flat ground walk around take away the cars and cart ride it wd be hesthyer to breath and hesthyer to walk around my grandma loved to get up and walk to the market and BK home