Old Town

The original downtown core, Old Town is the historic part of the city, with crumbling brick buildings and narrow streets. It’s still an important center of commerce, although many of the largest companies have moved across the river to Newton.

Demographics

Large apartment buildings are mostly middle-class or working class, but Old Town is primarily a place where you work, not love, If you stop people on the street and ask them their address, you’ll find most live in Mercury City or Curtistown.

Points of interest

Kristof Cemetary is the city’s largest, and while its riverfront landscaping is worth a trip in the day, high crime makes it a dangerous place at night. In addition to roving street gangs, more sinister shadows violate the tombs themselves to aid in mystic rituals or re-animation science.
Pioneer Park is the site of the original for that protected the harbor back in settling days. The wooden stockades and log cabins have been restored, and costumed guides describe hinterland life in the previous century. Some of the city fathers are pushing to turn Pioneer Park into a more modern amusement park.
City Hall takes up four city blocks, and it’s a squat gothic building with mazelike corridors and nearly endless rooms of file cabinets and storage crates. Full of sallow, slouching bureaucrats and grasping politicians, it’s a frequent place to meet a patron or do business. Finally, police headquarters and the courthouse are here, so those who run afoul of the law disappear into the warrens of City Hall’s justice wing.

Location under

Northport