Category: NPB News

  • Take Back the Block: Emerson School Picnic – Aug 27th

    The folks at the Emerson School have extended this invite for the neighborhood to join them tonight Thurs Aug 27th “I wanted to put out the information that The Emerson School is having our Back To School Picnic tonight, on the playground block, with ~100 families and children coming to play and take over the…

  • Mayor Hales – What’s the Plan?

    After ignoring the summer’s invasion of traveling gangs into the North Park Block, the city surrounded one park block (between Burnside and Couch) with barbwire-topped chainlink fencing to cordon off the block from all public use. Not surprisingly the gangs moved across the street to the playground block in front of the Emerson school. The…

  • North Park Blocks Stalker

    North Park Block neighbors are warned to be on the lookout for this man. Email from a North Park Block’s business owner August 24, 2015: On Monday night after departing my office my husband and I were stalked by a young man under the influence. He wanted money, then asked for my phone so he could…

  • KATU-TV: Park Drugs, Public Sex, Off-Leash Dog Attacks

    KATU-TV’s Jackie Labrecque reports on the break down of the North Park Blocks – drugs, public sex, off-leash dog attacks. Note: Aug 25th – In an attempt to restore order to the North Park Blocks, the city began to cordon off the park with barbwire-topped chainlink fencing. More KATU-TV ~ PORTLAND, Ore. — Neighbors in North Park Blocks have had…

  • City Tries to Take Back North Park Blocks

    In less than two weeks the North Park Blocks will host Portland’s premier Labor Day event – Art in the Pearl. After ignoring deteriorating conditions all summer, the city finally took first steps to try and restore control of the North Park Blocks. As we have reported, this summer the North Park Blocks have been…