http://www.windycitizen.com/tag/60622 The latest reader-recommended stories from Chicago. en http://www.windycitizen.com/2008/02/14/old-meets-new <p><!--paging_filter-->Bucktown's old two-floor houses aren't glamorous, but they do bear themselves with quiet dignity. Sandwiched between two homes on the 1600 block of N. Wolcott (across the street from the &quot;Urban Sandbox&quot; mentioned in the previous post) is this new home: <img src="http://www.methodsreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/old-meets-new-on-wolcott.jpg" height="450" width="600" /> I love - and hate - these juxtapositions peppering Bucktown and other neighborhoods throughout the city: gentrification is rarely so clearly displayed. What are the neighbors thinking?</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><ul class="links"><li class="first last og_links"><a href="/blogs/theregoestheneighborhood" class="og_links">There Goes the Neighborhood</a></li> </ul></div> http://www.windycitizen.com/2008/02/14/old-meets-new#comments Bucktown 60622 Bucktown Gentrification There Goes the Neighborhood Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:25:26 -0600 388 at http://www.windycitizen.com http://www.windycitizen.com/2008/02/09/would-you-live-sandbox <p><!--paging_filter-->While walking down North Avenue this week, I glanced up Wolcott Avenue and spotted this bleak mid-winter scene: <img src="http://www.methodsreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/n-wolcott-sandbox-3.jpg" /> So many of the new homes being built in Bucktown have either too many windows or too few. This white, nearly finished building at 1611 N. Wolcott just has oddly placed windows, which for some reason the architect paired with large orange rectangles. It's as though the developer said, &quot;This home needs some flair!&quot; and the architect obliged with a few dashes of color.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><ul class="links"><li class="first last og_links"><a href="/blogs/theregoestheneighborhood" class="og_links">There Goes the Neighborhood</a></li> </ul></div><p><a href="http://www.windycitizen.com/2008/02/09/would-you-live-sandbox">read more</a></p> http://www.windycitizen.com/2008/02/09/would-you-live-sandbox#comments 60622 Bucktown orange sandbox Wolcott Ave. There Goes the Neighborhood Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:13:28 -0600 359 at http://www.windycitizen.com