Trinity Cemetary
Update: Wednesday, 10:14 p.m. -- The Detroit News reports that water department crews this afternoon unclogged a sewer that had caused repeated major flooding on Farnsworth Street in the past two years.
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From earlier today
People are talking about Detroit's resurgence, the trendy restaurants and cool lofts, but some in the poorer neighborhoods feel they're being left out.
George Hunter of the Detroit News shines the light on the issue, and focuses on the street where Jerry Jackson, lives "across the street from Trinity Cemetery in a watery urban graveyard, a desolate, flooded pocket of the city far removed from the trendy restaurants and expensive lofts often touted as symbols of Detroit's renaissance."
Hunter writes:
Jackson said he and the block's only other resident for years have dealt with backed-up sewer water flooding the 600-foot-long parcel fronted by the 147-year-old cemetery on Farnsworth Street east of Mount Elliott, tucked in the shadow of the crumbling Packard Plant.
Jackson said he reported the issue to the city several times, to no avail. Jake Lueck, owner of Eastern Michigan Distributors on Mount Elliott and Farnsworth, said he's called the city about streetlights that don't work, but said nothing has been done.
"I like what Mayor (Mike) Duggan is doing in other parts of the city, but what about this neighborhood?" said Jackson, 68. "There are only two people living on this street — the city ain't going to do nothing for us."
John Roach, the mayor's spokesman, told the News that the mayor is working to improve neighborhoods, and that investments downtown and in Midtown are from private dollars. He said the mayor is using public dollars to improve the neighborhoods.
