Mayor Bill Finch on Monday will visit with residents of The Hollow neighborhood in his continuing series of Community Cabinet meetings from 6 to 7:30 p.m., in the cafeteria at Geraldine Johnson School, 475 Lexington Avenue. All Hollow residents are welcome to attend to hear from the mayor about city initiatives and projects. A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation, according to the Mayor’s Office.
A Community Cabinet meeting is also scheduled for the North End on September 12, 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Discovery Interdistrict Magnet School, 4510 Park Avenue. Community Cabinet meetings in other city neighborhoods will be announced soon, according to the Mayor’s Office. Check the City Calendar on the homepage of www .bridgeportct.gov for upcoming meetings and locations.
Where’s The Hollow? The general area bounded by Washington Avenue, North Avenue, Park Avenue and Main. City neighborhood historian Charles Brilvitch shares some background:
The area now known collectively as The Hollow is an amalgamation of several historic communities. Golden Hill was the well-to-do neighborhood (largely obliterated by highway construction and later development) that occupied the hill to the west of Pequonnock and Congress Streets. Sterling Hill was a 19th-century Irish settlement on the north and east slopes (named not for the cheaper metal but for its progenitor, Daniel H. Sterling). The area north of Harral Avenue to North Avenue, the Hollow Proper of our day, was known in the 19th century by the bucolic name of Golden Valley. And from Madison Avenue west to the Pequonnock River is a section still known as Bull’s Head, after a tavern of that name that stood at the corner of Main and Frank Streets that was a favorite stop of cattle drovers from Monroe and Newtown in the 1790s.
It’s not Macy’s window, but it’s still an opportunity for you.
Maybe it should be meet the Hollow, Mr. Mayor.
Interesting, the Mayor is having a meet and greet in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods after blowing thousands of dollars on a trip to Las Vegas and spending tax dollars on a luxury room. Maybe the folks in the Hollow would like to hear about that, Mr. Mayor.
I don’t think they would care. Many go to a church where the pastor shows up in a fancy car (maybe a Bentley) the congregation gifted to him. He will promise to paint, plant flowers or install free wireless internet (so the kids can access the school website). They will fill out their AB’s and Finch will win. BTW, did you use your Finch-promised $600 property tax rebate to move to AZ or are you still waiting for that?
*** Hey Lennie, I think you got the time and place wrong; I believe it’s at the crossroads of the Park City Cemetary, starting at midnite ’til a half hour before sunrise, no? ***