Alvord

Since the upscale market opened in February across from a section of Golden Gate Park known as Alvord Lake, known for attracting drug dealers and homeless people, crime within a 500-foot radius of the store has shot up, according to the San Francisco Police Department.

Hopes Dim for a Haight Street Lift Ian Sherr 2011

Founded in 1899 and today known as Prospect Park South, this urban project conjured by developer Dean Alvord became the blueprint for the modern suburb.

Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Buzzing Cicadas and Jewish Gangsters Derek Beres 2011

Founded in 1899 and today known as Prospect Park South, this urban project conjured by developer Dean Alvord became the blueprint for the modern suburb.

Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Buzzing Cicadas and Jewish Gangsters Derek Beres 2011

Founded in 1899 and today known as Prospect Park South, this urban project conjured by developer Dean Alvord became the blueprint for the modern suburb.

Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Buzzing Cicadas and Jewish Gangsters Derek Beres 2011

Founded in 1899 and today known as Prospect Park South, this urban project conjured by developer Dean Alvord became the blueprint for the modern suburb.

Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Buzzing Cicadas and Jewish Gangsters Derek Beres 2011

A newly minted real estate man with modernist dreams of upper-class enclaves for even more freshly minted wealthy Brooklynites, an outlander in a peculiarly tight-knit community that could easily, and often did, trace its lineage to the first settlements, Alvord was precisely the type of carpetbagging speculator Bergen feared would set his sights on rural Kings County.

MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

A newly minted real estate man with modernist dreams of upper-class enclaves for even more freshly minted wealthy Brooklynites, an outlander in a peculiarly tight-knit community that could easily, and often did, trace its lineage to the first settlements, Alvord was precisely the type of carpetbagging speculator Bergen feared would set his sights on rural Kings County.

MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

But by then Alvord, president of the Dean Alvord Co., had moved on, heading east, cutting a swath of luxury living as he went, through Laurelton, Queens, and along Long Island.

MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

But by then Alvord, president of the Dean Alvord Co., had moved on, heading east, cutting a swath of luxury living as he went, through Laurelton, Queens, and along Long Island.

MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

The interior of this home, one of the first completed on the block, suggests that nothing that has entered it has been discarded since it was sold to one Josephine Halback directly from Dean Alvord, the developer, in 1903.

MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010