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3-year-old shot on 20th Street

Few details are yet available, but police say the child suffered live-threatening injuries. Police are now on-scene in the 1500 block of N. 20th St. [VIA]

Shooting on Brauers Lane

wric8 has word of a shooting: The Richmond Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred early Sunday morning in the 1900 block of Brauers Lane. Officials say around 3:00 a.m., an adult male was shot outside.

Police walk through in Brauers this evening

Chief Bryan T. Norwood will lead his Command Staff and sector officers in a community walk through in the Brauers neighborhood in the city’s East End tonight starting at 6PM: Prostitution is a big concern for officers in this neighborhood because of the effect on the quality of life for both residents and business-owners. During [...]

1st Quarter Richmond Housing Analysis Report details neighborhood real estate activity

The 1st Quarter Richmond Housing Analysis Report (PDF) has been released and includes: prices overview, market dynamics, highest percentage of appreciation (Oakwood #1), highest percentage of depreciation (Whitcomb #2), top 20 neighborhoods by percentage in foreclosure (8 of 20 in the East End), highest by % vacant (top 4 in East End), and more.

RPD takes down Church Hill Boyz

Richmond police announced the arrest of 14 members of the “Church Hill Boyz”, a gang involved in violence and drug activity in the area around 22nd and T streets. [via]

Hookers and drugs on North 22nd; robberies north of Fairmount (UPDATED)

Fairmount‘s ongoing problems with prostitution and drugs makes the news. So everybody knows that this is going on, now what? More signs? … Another later story also on nbc12 brings to light a spate of robberies last night in Brauers at Brauers Lane and Rogers Street and nearby on North 23rd Street. UPDATE: Arrests made [...]

a map of when houses were built

Trulia Hindsight is an animated map of homes in the United States. The animations use the year the properties were built to show the growth of streets, neighborhoods and cities over time. View the map.

Neighborhood and city data

One of the take-aways from tonight’s 7th District Round Table (more on that later) is DataShare Metro Richmond, a great interface to US Census data on a city, regional, and neighborhood level.

Vacant Richmond and vacant next door

The folks at Pharrout and neighborhood resident Daniel (aka Farrell IT), building on an idea by Jon at River City Rapids, have put together Vacant Richmond, a new way to find out about and comment on the vacant housing around the neighborhood and the city.

Official Sector 113 and neighborhood YTD crime stats

Following last week’s Sector 111 stats, here are year-to-date crime stats Sector 113 and the individual neighborhoods — and they are looking good…