New Story: Sin City (the Urban Legends / the True Story)

Click below for this week’s story, the first of three in a series about that infamous Jacksonville neighborhood long known as “Sin City,” or navigate the city through the direction buttons at the top of the page:

Actor Darrell Zwerling hadn’t yet starred in Polanski’s Chinatown, when he stayed at Fox Meadows, saying, “This is the life. Swimming & Sunning all day and acting at night.” The apartments advertised, “Luxury Living at Reasonable Rates,” but “No Children” soon became “Adults Only.” By the time Fox Meadows became the Rivermont in the 1970s, drugs and prostitution branded the apartments “Sin City,” a moniker that soon spread to the surrounding neighborhood. The urban legends are legion; here’s the true story.