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This thread is to list all the Ghettos and Bad areas in Your town or city.
Here in New Brunswick,NJ there are several Ghetto like areas In the southern part of town Especially along French street and Remsen Avenue. Remsen avenue is known for its "open air drug outlets" after dark . I once saw a live drug bust at the intersection of Handy street and Remsen avenue, and there are occasional group shootouts between gangs in the area. If you visit New Brunswick, NJ now you know where not to venture.
However, New Brunswick is one of the relatively safer areas in NJ. Other towns & cities like Paterson, Secaucus, Trenton, Lakewood, and most of Newark are even worse. However, there is one NJ city which trumps all of these other towns and cities in crime, and that's CAMDEN, NJ which is the 2nd most dangerous city in the US. Trust me, Camden looks like a war zone in most places .
This above map from the NYC forum pretty much accurately describes where the bad spots are in my area...thankfully I live on the far southern half of the island nowhere near any of that.
Sorry, I didn't mean to include Secaucus in there. Take it out of the list . It looked dumpy near the train station, so I presumed that Secaucus was rough.
Vineland, NJ is pretty nasty as well. Keep hearing about crimes there in NJ.com. Never been there though
The western boundary of urban development in southern Essex County, NJ, is also essentially the "hood" boundary; with a few exceptions all the heavily urbanized areas are "hood" and the suburban areas are not. Kind of old school that way. There's a pocket of gentrification in downtown Newark and there's Forest Hill, Newark which was never all that bad, and the "hood" makes inroads into some of the more suburban towns -- "Maplehood" (next to Irvington, NJ), southern Bloomfield, and eastern West Orange.
Where I work is Manhattan, and the only hood left south of the park seems to be the NYCHA projects themselves. Maybe still a few pockets on the lower east side, but they're disappearing rapidly.
Generally speaking, the North and South sides of Memphis are bad news. The nicer areas are in between, all the way across town along Poplar Ave. Rough neighborhoods: Frayser, Raleigh, North Memphis, Binghampton, South Memphis, Whitehaven, Orange Mound, Hickory Hill. Yes, there are quite a few.
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. I once saw a live drug bust at the intersection of Handy street and Remsen avenue, and there are occasional group shootouts between gangs in the area. If you visit New Brunswick, NJ now you know where not to venture.
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. It looked dumpy near the train station, so I presumed that Secaucus was rough. 
