Glenville | |
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| Country | United States |
| State | Ohio |
| County | Cuyahoga County |
| City | Cleveland |
| Population | |
• Total | 22,581 |
| Demographics[1] | |
| • White | 3.3% |
| • Black | 93.4% |
| • Hispanic (of any race) | 0.7% |
| • Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| • Mixed and Other | 2.8% |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP Codes | 44108 |
| Area code | 216 |
| Median income[1] | $26,434 |
| Source: 2020 U.S. Census, City Planning Commission of Cleveland | |
Glenville is aneighborhood on the East Side ofCleveland,Ohio. To the north, it borders thestreetcar suburb ofBratenahl, theCleveland Memorial Shoreway, and theLake Erie shore, encompassing the Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve. To the east, it borders the suburb ofEast Cleveland, and to the south, it borders the neighborhoods ofHough andUniversity Circle. Glenville borders theCollinwood area to the northeast at East 134th Street, andSt. Clair–Superior to the west atMartin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and theCleveland Cultural Gardens inRockefeller Park.[2]
The Glenville neighborhood was founded in 1870 as an independent village. Until 1904, it also included the now adjacent lakeside village ofBratenahl, Ohio. Bratenahl departed from Glenville during the city of Cleveland's annexation of Glenville in 1904.[3] In its early years, Glenville had been a small village, serving mainly as a resort community to Cleveland's upper-middle class residents. It was also home to the Glenville Race Track (harness racing) and the Cleveland Country Club.[4] Following World War I, developers invested in Glenville with the rapid construction of single and multi-family homes throughout the Cleveland neighborhood, turning the once quiet village into a bustling inner city neighborhood.
From a period beginning shortly after its annexation in 1904 and into the 1950s, Glenville was predominantly aJewish neighborhood with a smallAfrican American population.[4] At its peak, Jews made up over 90% of Glenville's residents.[5] The neighborhood's large Jewish influence during the time of its development was most notable along E.105th street, where dozens of Jewish owned stores, bakeries, kosher butchers, and other businesses lined the street. Severalsynagogues were built throughout the neighborhood, most of which are used today as African American churches.[6] By the mid 1950s, the neighborhood's Jewish population began to relocate from Glenville to adjacent eastern suburbs.[7] Similarly to surrounding inner city neighborhoods, Glenville rapidly turned into anAfrican-American neighborhood.
In the 1960s,racial integration saw an accompanying civil unrest in the neighborhood, which reached its climax in the 1968Glenville Shootout. Like much of the violence associated with civil unrest during theCivil Rights Movement in other majorUS cities as well as in the adjacentHough neighborhood, racial tensions were a catalyst for an ensuing demographicshift.[4]
Today, Glenville is predominantlyAfrican-American. While having been so for over a half century - being one of Cleveland's most visible examples of poverty, crime and urban decay - Glenville has in the early 21st century gained more positive national media attention, particularly in itshigh school football team, which has rapidly become one of the better known preparatory programs in Ohio as well as the nation.[8][9]
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Glenville High School and its feeder schools serve the community at large.
Glenville is bordered on the northwest byGordon Park (part of the Cleveland Lakefront State Park district)[10] and on the entirety of its immediate western edge by the windingRockefeller Park. Built on land donated to the city byJohn D. Rockefeller in 1897, the wooded 276 acres, through which a section of Martin Luther King Boulevard runs, is known for its historic greenhouse and the Cultural Gardens, and is the largest park located completely within the city limits of Cleveland.[11]
Notable residents of Glenville include:
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