The Dayton View Triangle is the neighborhood of choice for people from many different cultural, ethnic, professional, and educational backgrounds. We enjoy being a truly `neighborly' neighborhood, where we know each other, stop and talk with each other, care about each other.

The Triangle's roomy homes are distinctive, with many architectural styles from which to choose. Built in the earlier years of the 20th century, our houses embody many features no longer standard in any but custom-built designs. Unique front doorways, elaborate wood moldings, beautiful staircases, built-in cabinets, leaded glass, and hardwood floors reflect craftsmanship that cannot be duplicated today. Tree-lined streets provide a serene setting for the charmingly varied homes of this quiet neighborhood.

Our neighborhood association, the Dayton View Triangle Federation, has sponsored many improvements since it was founded in 1975. Its membership is open to all residents of the Triangle, and it has always been ready to help implement any activities that residents choose to initiate. There has always been a summer get-together, whether a TriangleFest, a summer concert, or an ice-cream social followed by a movie. In winter, there is caroling around the neighborhood. Other undertakings include the annual neighborhood-wide garage sale, a children's Hallowe'en party, the Neighborhood Watch network, a biennial Home Tour, and landscaping around the three brick gateways (designed by a resident) that mark the main entrances into the Triangle.

The Triangle was the first neighborhood in the city of Dayton to develop a Strategic Plan. It was residents of the Triangle who began a recycling project that directly led to the initiation of curbside recycling in the City of Dayton. We formed our own tax-assessment district in order to install our period streetlights. Concern about our children led a group of neighbors to devise a traffic plan, which resulted in the installation of our street traffic impeders. Each of these projects took over five years from conception to implementation; the Dayton View Triangle Federation provided the leadership needed to undertake them and carry them through.

The Triangle has close ties with our neighborhood institutions - with Beth Abraham Synagogue, with Good Samaritan Hospital, and with Omega Baptist Church, which has recently purchased the Olmstead-designed campus that housed the United Theological Seminary for 80 years. This park-like area is a neighborhood-gathering place, its 35 acres encircled by a walking/ jogging path. The path, with its exercise stations, was realized through a City of Dayton Grant, requested jointly by the Seminary and the Triangle Federation.

The Federation also maintains liaisons with the Northwestern Priority Board and other associations and programs, such as the Phoenix Project and the Northern Alliance of Neighbors, that affect the Triangle and its surroundings. But we who live in the Triangle are also committed to keeping our neighborhood one where we truly know our neighbors, not just see them drive by. If you stop to talk with someone doing yard work or out walking, you will feel a warmth that few areas can match. We feel that by working together, we are making our part of Dayton one of the best places to live in the city.