Hill Avenue Neighborhood Association

Hill Avenue Neighborhood Association

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Our neighborhood is ethnically diverse. It's rich diversity is balanced among European Americans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans and African Americans. There's a strong sense of community involvement that's developed over the years and it is continually improving with the advent of the Hill Avenue Neighborhood Association. We have a university in our boundaries, and a public school (Longfellow) in the near vicinity. We also have a great supermarket on the corner of Allen & Washington (Von's), we have a donut shop/Chinese restaurant on the corner of Hill & Washington, we have an interior designer on the Northwest corner of Hill & Washington (Cyle's 626-798-4330), we also have a perfume/cologne store on Washington Blvd (La Mine D Or 626-798-3703). It makes practical sense to support our neighborhood businesses, and we put back into our community. We have approximately 800 households in our boundaries (including businesses), and about 100 current members. There's a large population of Armenian Americans living in our community, along with many Armenian merchants. Our neighborhood is vast and rich in it's resources, and it's up to us residents to come together in unity to utilize them.

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About our association

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Hill Avenue Neighborhood Association started in September of 1999 by a local resident by the name of Jerome Palkowski in response to the Rite-Aid situation. In a nutshell, there's been a Rite-Aid sign on the corner of Hill & Washington in the old Alph-Beta store for about a year now, well, it's become not only an eye sore, but an environment for transients and teenage boys causing disturbances at night. This and other issues were discussed in the first meeting that Councilman Paul Little and the Community police officer for our district-2 attended. We've now had three meetings which are the 3rd tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m., and many wonderful things have happened because of the action we have committed ourselves to doing.

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