Reading my EveryBlock news feed, I sometimes get the impression I live in a garbage-strewn, crime-battered, gangbanger-ridden hell that occasionally hosts a puppet show for the kids.
I attended the Landmarks Commission at lunchtime. Not sure of the technical term, but the Commission approved the continued pursuit of landmark status for the Portage Theater! Huzzah! As a fellow attendee said to me on the way out, “That was a very nice first step.”