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Baltimore is bigger in size than DC. I could care less about the population there basically the same. And Baltimores street vibes seem more urban and grit than DC
Geographically it is, but honestly, the land sizes between the two aren't even that significantly different either. I don't know how big DC's boundaries were when it still had Arlington and the City of Alexandria, probably close to around that 100 square miles that George Washington initially called for I think.
it accounts for Baltimore's impressive volume of abandoned buildings
...because urbanity is not about people, it's about boarded-up rowhouses, a downtown with fewer office workers than Reston, Virginia, and most importantly, a mall with a Cheesecake Factory that attracts more tourists than the Smithsonian
So if I walk down Grand Concourse or Amsterdam, a majority of the buildings are vacant with few people outside except for junkies? In case you haven't noticed, there's a huge difference in the way 125th Street and Greemount Avenue feel.
Yes, they have a different feel. 125th has the Apollo, then a bunch or chain stores ( h&m, Modell's, burger king.. Etc). Greenmount is becoming a haven for artsy types of people.
Nothing in Philly is quite as abandoned as Baltimore, but there are significant parts of North Philly that are pretty close. There are about 45,000 vacant properties in Philly
According to the Census...
Bronx, NY - 39,872 (7.7%)
Boston, MA - 22,286 (8.2%)
Brooklyn, NY - 88,419 (8.8%)
Washington, DC - 31,865 (10.6%)
Philadelphia, PA - 88,812 (13.3%)
Baltimore, MD - 53,656 (18.1%)
Poor New York neighborhoods are nothing like those in Baltimore. Even the "worst" hoods of the South Bronx and East Brooklyn have very few vacants or crumbling buildings, which are everywhere in Baltimore, and also, on account of their much higher density, have way more people on the street.
Nothing in Philly is quite as abandoned as Baltimore, but there are significant parts of North Philly that are pretty close. There are about 45,000 vacant properties in Philly
That would make about the percentage of vacants as Baltimore give or take.
Yes, they have a different feel. 125th has the Apollo, then a bunch or chain stores ( h&m, Modell's, burger king.. Etc). Greenmount is becoming a haven for artsy types of people.
125th Street also has mad foot traffic and way more vibrancy in general. Poverty doesn't always equate to a neighborhood or city having a generally lethargic feel.
125th Street also has mad foot traffic and way more vibrancy in general. Poverty doesn't always equate to a neighborhood or city having a generally lethargic feel.
Are you comparing gentrifying Harlem to poverty stricken areas of Baltimore where people don't have any place to be? How vibrant were those bombed out neighborhoods in NYC before the city started gentrifying?
Poor New York neighborhoods are nothing like those in Baltimore. Even the "worst" hoods of the South Bronx and East Brooklyn have very few vacants or crumbling buildings, which are everywhere in Baltimore, and also, on account of their much higher density, have way more people on the street.
Nothing in Philly is quite as abandoned as Baltimore, but there are significant parts of North Philly that are pretty close. There are about 45,000 vacant properties in Philly
The vast majority of the foot traffic on 125th isnt gentrifying types tho. And Greenmount has an artsy vibe for maybe two blocks by the cemetery, with the rest of it having more of a destroyed vibe.
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