Editing A Necessary Evil VISITOR'S GUIDE to Freedom City (section)

==WEST FREEDOM==
The area of the city west of the Wallace Expressway comprises West Freedom. It's a contrast between old and new, progress and old-fashioned ways of doing things. It includes some of the older intact neighborhoods of Freedom City, as well as newly developed areas that expanded the outskirts of the city.


===Lantern Hill===
The north side of the peninsula along the Wading River rises to a hill that is the site of some of the oldest settlement in the Freedom area. The garden apartments and row houses are still wonderful examples of 18th and 19th century architecture, many of them having undergone modern renovations. The neighborhood has a distinctly colonial flavor with narrower, tree-lined streets, brick-front buildings, and small garden plots or window boxes of flowers.

Lantern Hill is home to a number of historical sites, from the home of Revolutionary War hero Major Joseph Clark to the Lantern Hill Cemetery and one of Freedom's oldest houses of worship, St. Stephen's Church. It is better known as the haunt of the mysterious Lantern Jack, mystic watchman of Freedom since the days of the Revolutionary War.


===The West End===
Flowing down from Lantern Hill toward Greenbank is the West End of Freedom City. The West End was originally a number of small ethnic communities settled around the end of the 19th century. Today, they have blended together into an overall community, although pockets of the original cultures can still be found, along with a number of newcomers to the area.

It's a boisterous, mostly lower middle-class, area. Row houses and apartment buildings are common, along with garden-style apartments with common courtyards. Due to cheap housing in its infancy, the West End became home to Irish, Italian, Greek, and Jewish immigrants. African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asians followed in later years. The West End features the best ethnic restaurants in the city, particularly delis and pizza places.


===Greenbank===
Greenbank, in between the West End and the South River, was best known as a railroad stop where goods moved in and out of the Freedom City area by train. It is filled with warehouses, rail yards, and shipping companies, where a lot of West Enders used to work.

Greenbank is centered on the old Union Rail Yards, where trains move in and out of the city. It's occasionally used for smuggling and clandestine meetings, so the police (and heroes like Foreshadow) keep a watchful eye on it. Abandoned warehouses, train yards, and roundhouses have also served as hideouts and headquarters for heroes and villains alike.


===Ashton and Grenville===
The bedroom communities of Ashton and Grenville are fairly new, having grown up over the past twenty years. Both are clean, modern suburban communities only barely keeping up with the demand for new homes from the people moving into the Freedom area. Although some think the new communities are too "uniform," with their six or seven styles of single-family homes, most find Ashton and Grenville pleasant, with new neighborhoods, schools, shopping, and the like. Many of Freedom's middle class families live in the area, with more moving in all the time.