Immediately south of Swan, the condition of Taylor worsens. It is uneven, and not simply due to pavement cracking and chipping. The brick street under the pavement has settled badly, making for sharp drop-offs on the edges of the street. Rather than form a curve, the street makes a profile like a wooden saddle threshold. View looking south.

While the cul-de-sac at Swan is mitigated by Swan's continuation on the other side of the barrier, the two streets south of Swan dead-end with the cul-de-sacs, leaving short remainders along Taylor that function as driveways for the residents deprived of connection with Taylor. Here is the intersection with Norfolk. Roughly 40% of the houses on this block of Norfolk are vacant; probably 30% of the land on the block is undeveloped or cleared. Residents do not walk this street at night, and gunshots often come from this direction. View looking east.

The sidewalk running along the eastern side of Taylor would have been meager when intact, but is so overgrown and damaged that use is nearly impossible.

Here is the cul-de-sac at Vista Avenue. On this block, fully 60% of all homes are vacant and 30-35% of land is undeveloped or cleared. This block is known for bad drug dealing. Many of the vacant houses were dilapidated rental units owned by local landlord Jack Krause, who boarded them up as they became uninhabitable. He sold all of his properties to Forest West Properties, a housing corporation tied to Washington University's School of Medicine, which has allowed the buildings to deteriorate further.

The sidewalk on the south side of Vista does not even meet Taylor with a curb cut, let alone intersect with another sidewalk -- big problems for everyone, especially the many elderly and disabled people who walk up Taylor to go shopping at the grocery store on Manchester Avenue..

The cul-de-sac forms an unpleasant and abrupt end to Vista, which could be a pleasant and quiet street. The home on the left is an unusually wide house for the city and cuts an elegant profile. The home to its right is well kept and occupied.