In front of Elle and Troika Brodsky’s home there is a sinkhole that gets fixed one half at a time every few years.
That’s partly because the Brodsky house — and the dip in the road in front of it — straddle an invisible line that has been there for 150 years: the border between St. Louis and St. Louis County.
“You can see the line in the road from where the city worked up to a certain point and the county worked up to a certain point,” Elle Brodsky said. “They were both dealing with half of the same sinking issue, but they weren’t working together. They weren’t working on the same schedule.”…