What’s unavoidable when you enter this Westside Atlanta neighborhood are all the kids in the street.
Called English Avenue, it’s an area just over the shoulder of the city’s prized new Mercedes-Benz stadium. Kids are running, skipping, biking, motor-biking, scootering up and down Dalvigney Street, a perch from which you can view Atlanta’s downtown skyline, and where cars occasionally zip through from that direction, despite the youth street activity. A range of ages are represented in these streets, from toddlers to teens, and you see them in almost every turn of the English Avenue community. It’s not what you expect to see in a neighborhood that has been labeled as unsafe.
