Denver Ghettos (Aurora, Arvada, Commerce City: loan, homes, movies)

[Pilot1]

I don't know if its a ghetto or not, but Commerce City is pretty bad.

[RonAriba]

You cannot compare the ghettos of St Louis, Washington D.C, Baltimore, etc. remotely to anything in Denver. Denver does not have any ghettos.

[bouncing]

I think traditionally a ghetto is defined as a residential area blighted by a nearby industrial wasteland.

By that standard, parts of Commerce City are a ghetto.

[glennarbor]

Originally Posted by bullfish15

No there are no ghettos. I lived in Youngstown Ohio. That is ghetto. First of all, whoever thinks Federal Heights is ghetto is living a sheltered life. Sure there are some sketchy areas through there but it is not bad by any stretch of the imagination. As far as parts of aurora, colfax and federal... these areas aren't cherry hills village, but even the worst of the worst in Denver is better than some of the "ok" sides of Youngstown Ohio, Cleveland, Pittsburgh... any rust belt city that has all but fallen down. I wouldn't hang out at the Federal and 6th ave freeway at 3 in the morning, but I would not think twice about walking through there in the day. A ghetto is somewhere you won't drive through at night or even walk through in the day. Denver just doesn't have any of those areas. At least not buy "back east" standards.

well put, any area around here seems like paradise compared the vast majority of Detroit proper. talk about blight, decay and high crime.

[FoRuMRideR420]

every cities got a ghetto... every ghetto got a hood
na but for real aint bad here nothin compared to other places ive lived FL,MA

[kwilliams1985]

Originally Posted by RonAriba

You cannot compare the ghettos of St Louis, Washington D.C, Baltimore, etc. remotely to anything in Denver. Denver does not have any ghettos.

Add Chicago to the list. 30+ Chicago Public Schools students from select neighborhoods were shot to death last year.

[katmoney]

Exactly..THERE IS NO GHETTO IN DENVER.

[subsound]

There's no Ghetto by the technical definition....but there are places I wouldn't visit after dark if I could help it. Older parts of Colfax are included, though parts are being sequentially redeveloped by the city and are becoming pretty upscale (say, around Kremeria). Compared to East Coast and Chicago/Detroit ghettos there is nothing that is going to be as bad.

Areas like Colfax north of Colorado, East of Quebec, and near I-270...plus MLK west of Quebec are areas I would reconsider if you're looking for some where nice. BUt it's real sectional, in 3-4 blocks an area with dirt for sidewalks and funky people hanging out can look pretty nice.

Originally Posted by steveindenver

I could not agree more. Back around 2000 I remember a newspaper article wherein they interviewed a young white couple who had moved into the area recently. The young couple said something like "we are happy to be a part of helping 5 points come back!" -- to which a long time neighbor responded "coming back from what? Us black folk?"

That's not cool. People who want to work hard and revitalize an economically depressed area is not automatically against any race. Anyone can inject money and hard work, just because some one is white (as 51% of the population Diversity in Denver, Colorado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) doesn't mean they take that racist view.

[nappyloxs]

What is a ghetto? To every person, it is different. In h.s. I use to hang out in bed-stuy and harlem. Some people would say that is the ghetto. In Cleveland during my early 20's, I went to many areas that are called ghetto. Nothing happened to me in either place, because I knew how to carry myself there. If you think an area is "ghetto" don't go there and if you do, don't be scared, act like you have been there before.

As far as this thread's question. Denver has nothing remotely like bed-stuy or cleveland. Denver has streets that are bad. Its different than back east. a few blocks will be fine and then the next few blocks may have some crime or look run-down.

An area that I have heard bad things about is between Sheriden and federal from colfax to w. 6th. Some people on this forum will say north park hill, far east colfax, and others. Well far east colfax is a blight area, but, I would not be worried about it. North Park Hill, well, I just bought a house up there. Again, my block and the surrounding blocks are fine, but there is some crime that happens. Tragically, a young man was killed in the north park hill area today. It was likely random, a carjacking from the shopping center near stapleton. However, rapes happen almost every month in cheesman and congress park and a few murders, mostly domestic, happen in the capital hill/congress park area the past few months.
Since my GF works for Denver PD I hear a lot of stuff, Denver is having gang and burglary problems throughout Denver right now. The areas of the she tells me area really bad are the sheridan/federal area, southeast denver and northeast denver(montbello area).

[FRANK ANG3L]

Ok look five points, just west of downtown, has a big crime rate and a large black population.Much of westside Denver is gang territory of the 5 Point Crips. East of the muesem, just adjacent to downtown, is also bad, yet it is the supposive territory of the East Side Bloods. Around the muesem there have been a few brawls involving the Bloods and Crips. So yeah, Denver actually has ghetto areas, because I have been in this area, and believe me, you will not want to live in these areas