
Recent Activity
July — Issue #2

The invisible labor behind the SNA's thirty annual gatherings, and what the new Events Committee's volunteer call honestly asks of a neighbor willing to help.

What the public record shows about St. Finn Barr's centennial festival, and what a non-parishioner neighbor can expect walking through the gate at Edna and Hearst.

How Michael Kelly's public contact block — three lines at the bottom of an SNA post — reveals a neighbor who absorbs complex emergency systems so others can simply walk in.

Permit records and sidewalk evidence trace how Sunnyside's ground floors absorbed, and sometimes reversed, the automobile's arrival.

Assessor dates and sidewalk observation reveal how one Mangels block face built out a steep hillside in phases.

Walk Hearst, Edna, and Foerster to read four decades of building eras in the facades, street by street.

An English engineer's glass garden room survived on seven lots platted for houses, becoming the thing Sunnyside most wanted to protect.

How a retired grocer's 25-foot lot widths encoded Sunnyside's density, scale, and modest character from the first filing in 1891.

How a housing reformer's four-decade argument for keeping cities' rough ground became a hilltop park on Baden Street.
July — Issue #1

Rosaura Valle keeps showing up to sweep the Detroit Steps long after the mural was finished, and the next cleanup is July 26.

Seven years of public records trace how a volunteer stairway project gave Sunnyside newcomers a role before requiring a conversation.

How a monthly coffee hour at a twenty-eight-year-old Monterey Blvd shop designs the lowest possible threshold for neighbors who haven't yet walked in.





