Is Washington Village " THE HOOD " ?

[ktaadin]

Originally Posted by seanlax

When I grew up in MP, Pigtown was down the hill. You just didn't go down the hill.

What's MP?

[james777]

Originally Posted by ItalianExec

Do the residents and neighbors of Washington Village consider that area the Hood. This area is primed for gentrification. On my last two visits to the area I noticed the usual evidence of it still being the hood.

1. Illegal dirt bikes popping wheelies down the road
2. Dozens of fellas hanging out on their porch
3. Trash
4. Drug parraphanellia in the alley ways.

What say you.

In the late 1980s, they said Pigtown was ready for gentrification. They said the same thing during the 1990s, the 2000s, and the 2010s. Gentrify at your own risk.

[seanlax]

Originally Posted by ktaadin

What's MP?

Morrell Park

[Lilbits]

It's not so bad on my street. Of course you have areas in pigtown you don't go to.

[B.K.]

"Washington Village", which I guess sounds a little more uppity/artsy/fartsy, than good old "Pigtown", is just another of Baltimore's "transitional" neighborhoods-i.e., lets try to slowly price out the poor black folks, and most of the remaining long time lower income White families. This is an area about which a lot of hoopla is made every few years to "prove" how progressive City urban planning is succeeding in significantly improving quality of life in inner-city Baltimore neighborhoods. In the 25+ years I've been here, I've seen the same spiel done several times: The result? Pigtown stays a bastion of inner-city white trash, and drug-dealing transitory black people.
No significant lasting development to the existing area, and the solution will be to help fill fleeing populations and housing stock with subsidized groups of City/State/Fed culls from the latest round of illegal Hispanic aliens. Thank you "Sanctuary City status", which allows City leadership to thumb its collective nose at Federal Immigration and employment laws, oddly enough with the wholehearted support of the Obama administration. While the illegal aliens are sucking up Fed benefits that are supposed to be accorded short-term only to deserving American citizens, the Administration is always happy to talk out of both sides of its face at once.
Call me crazy, but the observant amongst us have noticed for years that the "gentrification" plan encouraged by Baltimore City Government has in great part been based upon the displacement of poor, welfare supported-cradle-to-the-grave native black families with the replacement of poor, but at least off-the-books-employed, Latino people.
Will the latest positive spin (oops!, I meant initiatives), have any lasting effect? Yeah, when Pigtowners fly.
Call me next year-buy you lunch if we see anything significantly different has happened in Pigtown/Washington Village.

[JackParow]

no . its not a 5star neighborhood but its not the ghetto either.

[Mark gelker]

I'm tired of people saying a place is the hood if it has black people in it. Pig town is ok. It ain't that great but it ain't that bad. If you wanna talk real hood plan a trip to westside baltimore

[seanlax]

Originally Posted by Mark gelker

I'm tired of people saying a place is the hood if it has black people in it. Pig town is ok. It ain't that great but it ain't that bad. If you wanna talk real hood plan a trip to westside baltimore

I can't tell if this is super ironic or super dumb.