If you crave variety in a neighborhood’s housing stock, Brynford Park’s not the place for you. If you want a well-ordered phalanx of gambrel-roofed frame bungalows on quiet streets, you’ll have found heaven here.
This micro-neighborhood consists of only 120 homes and two churches, a Montessori school, a greenhouse, and Brynford Playlot along its eastern border. Every street’s a dead-end. There are no restaurants and no nightlife — unless something’s happening in Montrose Cemetery, on the neighborhood’s southern border, or in the Peterson Pulaski Industrial Corridor to the north and west.
Brynford Park, a part of the North Park neighborhood, is bounded by Bryn Mawr Ave (5600 N) on the south, Victoria St (5800 N) on the north, and spans the area from Pulaski Rd (4000 W) west to Kedvale Ave (4132 W), in ZIP code 60646. The name “Brynford” comes from the intersection of Bryn Mawr Ave and Pulaski Rd, which was formerly known as Crawford Ave.
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