Saturday at the Fights

Welcome to Saturday Night Mellon Street. Mellon Street is experiencing a lot of gang related activity this year. Already in May, I have called 911 at least six times. Earlier this month there was a lot of activity in front of 830 Mellon, a basketball hoop brought a lot of young boys to the street.

Basketball is a great sport but when the ball is used to break windows the party is over. The portable hoop now resides on Portland Street where hopefully it stays. Now we have the young men in oversize white t-shirts coming around---are they the Homewood Gang? Because I do not think they all live at 830 Mellon, the word is most of the trouble resides in aparment number 2 in that building.

Now tonight (May 12,2007), around 8:30 p.m. a couple of gang girls decided to pick up where they left off from last week continuing their fight in the street. A large crowd gathered, egging them on, getting loud and agitated. This time I made two calls to 911, basically told the operator please get the police here now so they could catch the incident as it was happening. And come they did, FIVE patrol cars, all running red to the corner of Jackson and Mellon. The police got out of their cars, disperse the crowd the best they could and after a while I was able to get a CCR number--- information needed to let the owner of 830 Mellon know that there is indeed trouble at his apartment complex.

830 Mellon is owned by Bernie Sobol and his company is Lobos Management Corp. He has a website but of all of his nice apartments on his website---830 Mellon is not one of them. ELDI has tried to talked to Bernie about his troubling tenants but Bernie claims he does background checks on all of his tenants and the renters that reside at 830 Mellon have clean records.

Enjoy the pictures. More information will be coming---as this Urban Pioneer wants a livable neighborhood for all.

Comments are welcome.