Prior to holding public office, Councilman Harsh worked as a housing specialist and community organizer for non-profit agencies, including Metro West Community Development Organization, where he was housing director since 2014. Kristopher Harsh represents Ward 13, which includes Old Brooklyn and part of the Stockyard neighborhoods. The neighborhood derives its name from the Cleveland Union Stockyards Co. The ward also encompasses a small portion of the Stockyards neighborhood, which also started out as a part of Brooklyn Twp., and was initially inhabited by Hungarian and Czech immigrants. Nearby, a former landfill was transformed into Cleveland Metroparks Brighton Park, named after the old neighborhood name. This reservation, still a recreation hub, connects to Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and an all-purpose trail connects neighborhoods. The 132-acre reservation serves as a refuge for diverse wildlife in an urban setting. It has been a center for recreation since the early 1900s. The land was purchased in 1894 and was named Brooklyn Park. (The Zoo began as Wade Park in 1882 but by 1907 Cleveland City Council had laid plans to build the Cleveland Museum of Art and decided to move the Zoo to its current location.) The Brookside Reservation nearby the zoo was one of the city of Cleveland's oldest neighborhood parks before its acquisition by Cleveland Metroparks in 1993. The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in the ward was created in 1907. It is heavily residential and in recent years there has been a revitalization of retail businesses. The ward stretches from the Brookside Reservation area, south to the border of the City of Parma. By the 1920s the neighborhood was one of the nation's leading producers of greenhouse vegetables, with more than 100 acres under glass. During the late 1880s, farmers in the area were among the first in the Midwest to use greenhouses to cultivate vegetables.Ī market-gardening center, commercial gardening received a boost when public transportation came to the community's borders in 1869. Later it rejoined Brooklyn Twp., but the area was later reorganized as the village of South Brooklyn in 1889. The former hamlet of Brighton was settled in 1814 around the intersection of Broadview and Pearl Rds., carved out of Brooklyn Township. The Old Brooklyn area that includes Ward 13 was first settled as a fur trading post in 1790.
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