 The following decades saw the decline of the community as it became plagued with crime and drugs.It was demolished in the mid-1990s and in its place, a shopping center and new housing was built.Along a segment of Brookfield Street, the Park River Greenway trail was created in 2008 as a recreational and environmental amenity that would ultimately hook into the East Coast Greenway, a planned pedestrian/bicycle corridor, from Maine to Florida.