Alleged Bicycle Bandit Lived in 'Storybook Neighborhood'
Neighbors of Steven S. Felton say the 600 block of Walnut Street in Emmaus is, for the most part, a great place to live.
The 600 block of Walnut Street in Emmaus looks much like many other streets on the north side of the borough. Turning onto Walnut Street from Seventh, large single-family brick homes line both sides, with neatly manicured front lawns and well-placed trees and shrubs. The holiday decorations are going up. A bit further on Walnut Street are a series of equally neat duplexes -- many brick, and all of an architectural design seen throughout the Lehigh Valley. It's a "storybook neighborhood," says a man who has lived in one of the double-block homes for five years. It's a place where he says he feels safe letting his second-grade daughter freely come and go. That is, he says, with the exception of the far end of the street, near Sixth Street. “…
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Nora Markovitch
2:22 am on Thursday, December 6, 2012
First I would like to point out that this story irritates me more than anything. Second, I would like to say I live a half block away from this "bad part" of town. I have lived there for twenty years, and the only time I have ever seen a police officer was when someone had passed away. Now here is where I start ruining the arguments that you "nameless" people have.Do you honestly consider … more ›