Mandery Ave, South Fairmont

My grandparents used to live on Mandery Avenue in South Fairmount. At one time, it was a nice, working class neighborhood. My grandparent's house sat on the corner of Mandery and Fairmount Avenue on what was a relatively quiet street. While it has been many years since my grandparents lived in this neighborhood, it had already started to decline before they moved to warmer climes.

At the bottom of Mandery Avenue runs Fairmount Avenue, which features woods on one side making Manderey still a relatively quiet street. Mandery Avenue has on street parking and sidewalks on both side of the street. It is made up of single-family homes primarily built in the 1920s. Because the South Fairmount neighborhood has one of the largest concentrations of section 8 housing in Cincinnati, property values tend to be pretty low. If you aren't worried about resale nor about kids going to school, it might be a good place to score a real estate bargain.

Mandery Avenue is relatively convenient to interstate access and not too far from Downtown Cincinnati, the major hospitals and universities. From Mandery Avenue, you can head down the hill on Fairmount Avenue which, several streets later, connects you to Queen City Avenue. You can also exit onto Harrison Avenue from Knorr Avenue, which is one street over from Mandery. Harrison Avenue will connect you with the Western Hills Viaduct and access to I-75. Just down the hill from Mandery, you will find schools part of the Cincinnati Public Schools (and where my grandmother used to work as a school lunch lady.)