"A Place to Chill"
Open for as long as its administrators can remember, the center was first incarnated at the corner of Harvard and Prospect Streets. When that building closed and the city sold it, the area was suddenly without a youth center, says its current director, Allen E. Platt.
Seven years ago, citizens rallied for a new one, and the city built the big colorful concrete building, with a park stretching out behind it and a church and school nearby.
Gamble and the other CPD officers who patrol Area 4 take special care of the tract surrounding the Area 4 Youth Center. CPD officers can sometimes even be found joining the kids for a quick game of basketball.
Home to the neighborhood's Head Start program, the city-run center also is the location of the area's biggest playground. After school and on beautiful weekend days, kids gather for street hockey or basketball.
Local schools use the park and basketball courts behind the center for recreation.
One recent sunny day found the courts full of seventh graders jumping rope.
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