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David Perlmutter's avatar

Ethnic neighborhoods add much to a city's character, even if prejudice and racism threaten their very existence. The rise and fall of the Kerry Patch recalls, for me, the similar rise and fall of such neighborhoods in Canada, such as "Rooster Town" (in my home town of Winnipeg), "Cabbagetown" (in Toronto) and "Africville" (Halifax), all of which were ultimately wiped off the map when the cities surrounding them expanded their urban sprawl.

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Mike Nichols's avatar

Great read, well done! What do you make of both Collins & Ashley Streets (re: Egan's Rats origins) being well east of any known boundary description of the Patch? Is it possible that the Kerry Patch origin story was owed to the gang's turf claim even though Kinney & the Egan brothers didn't physically live there?

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