Riverside and Alter

**EMG** · January-10-10, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by Hamtragedy

To exponentially raise their confusion, we drove back up Alter, hung a series of right turns and found ourselves on Essex, in GP. In a span of 2 minutes and 4-5 blocks we had seen the functioning and the dysfunctional.

It's startling to me everytime I visit my friends on the canal. To an out-of-towner, it completely defies logic. For that matter, to me, it completely defies logic.

Defies logic? Not really. It's nothing more than the difference between law enforcement and lawlessness.

**DanFromDetroit** · January-10-10, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by EMG

Defies logic? Not really. It's nothing more than the difference between law enforcement and lawlessness.

Lived on Wayburn [[1rst st. in Grosse Pointe in from Alter) for a couple of years - the GPP police were fantastic. Never had any issue and they responded quickly to anytime I called regarding beggars etc. Their actually referred to as the Border Patrol by many down there. Miss being stumbling distance from the Tap Room... *sigh*

**EMG** · January-10-10, 02:12 PM

Here are a couple of pictures from days gone by [[both taken in July 2001). The entrance to the old trailer park and also the store just over the bridge from Alter.

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**pgn421** · January-10-10, 02:27 PM

I've got the entrance sign, lots of memories , when I lived there

**Ocean2026** · January-10-10, 06:24 PM

The green house on Scripps is "pending". I really didn't see much on the river offered for sale.

**jerrytimes** · January-15-10, 08:18 PM

You're kidding. Not that those two pics look like a fantastic area or anything, but how in less than a decade that everything is gone from an area like that is mindblowing. I so wish I was old enough to see this city before it took it's nosedive.

**izzyindetroit** · January-16-10, 09:56 AM

Originally Posted by Ocean2026

The green house on Scripps is "pending". I really didn't see much on the river offered for sale.

Everything over in this area is for sale.

I saw somewhere a posting for the trailer park property asking $2.3 million. However this posting has it for $900k http://www.trulia.com/foreclosure/20...troit-MI-48215

There is this house at the corner of Alter and Riverside.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...215_1111629119

The same guy selling the house, also owns the boat launch and the fire damaged store/marina. All three can be yours for the low low price of $1,000,000.

**mauser** · January-16-10, 10:14 AM

Heres photos after the abandonment:

http://www.detroitfunk.com/?p=40

And video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js0Lzb8cGHs

**Lowell** · January-16-10, 11:29 AM

More final days tour from the working man's paradise on Detroit
YES... http://www.detroityes.com/webisodes/...wFromNorth.htm

Bearinabox · January-16-10, 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by izzyindetroit

There is this house at the corner of Alter and Riverside.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...215_1111629119

Looks like a beautiful house, but $200K for this market and that neighborhood seems kind of steep. I'd be interested to see if it sells, and at what price.