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Vivian P. Duncan, a longtime Social Security Administration and music prodigy, died of a blood disorder and pulmonary difficulties Jan. 24 at her daughter’s home in Washington. The former Howard Park resident was 91.

Vivian P. Duncan, a longtime Social Security Administration and music prodigy, died of a blood disorder and pulmonary difficulties Jan. 24 at her daughter’s home in Washington. The former Howard Park resident was 91.

Named for the college campus that occupied a sizeable chunk of the current neighborhood until relocating to Towson in the early 1950s, the neighborhood boasts, large rowhomes, wide streets, and a number of businesses that operate out of former school buildings.

Editor’s note: The Govans profile is one article in The Sun’s City of Neighborhoods series, spotlighting Baltimore communities. Other neighborhoods in the series: Upton, Mount Winans, Stonewood-Pentwood-Winston, Dickeyville, Ashburton, Highlandtown and Better Waverly. Twenty-seven years ago, Sandi McFadden moved to Govans without a good sense of the North Baltimore neighborhood, she said. That ...

Ashburton, in Northwest Baltimore, is described by residents as a quiet community with a suburban feel.

Residents, many drawn by the nearby Gwynns Falls Trail and bucolic dam that once powered the textile, wool and paper mills, cherish the town with its retro appearance and familial appeal.

Northeast Baltimore’s Stonewood-Pentwood-Winston neighborhood is a deep-rooted, if aging enclave of 238 residences, most of them row homes like that owned by Frank Cherry, who settled here in 1974.

Mount Winans is “a hidden little neighborhood, lightly trafficked and packaged between Westport and the railroad lines.”

Wed January 06, 2021 - Northeast Edition The Baltimore Sun The next phase of development includes five buildings, a portion of what eventually is planned to include 18 million sq. ft. of development, with 2.5 mi. of restored waterfront and more than 40 acres of parks and green space, according to the development team. Baltimores Port Covington development team will begin the next phase of construction on the waterfront revitalization project with more than 1 million sq. ft. of residential, ret...