High Anxiety
When Boris Gokhman came to Milwaukee from the Ukraine in 1990, he quickly saw what was the most desirable residential area. “The second day I was here I knew that Downer was the best place to live,” he recalls. The area around Downer Avenue, the heart of the upper East Side, was the first place that wealthy Milwaukeeans like the Uihleins and Harnischfegers drove to in their cars. It became the elite neighborhood, with an easy and pleasurable commute to Downtown. Nestled into a triangle that’s bounded by the Milwaukee River on the west and the lake on the east,…