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Yeah, I had to google image it and cruise around street-view for a while after seeing that photo, couldn't find too much that resembled close to that. From the pic I was thinking... we might have a "winner!"
part was turned into a ball field, the other low-rise generic brick buildings
And yea, nothing there looks like that, but if the thread allowed past and present, might be a good competitor for worse looking. Here's two more from Manhattan:
part was turned into a ball field, the other low-rise generic brick buildings
And yea, nothing there looks like that, but if the thread allowed past and present, might be a good competitor for worse looking. Here's two more from Manhattan:
Reading through this post, there have got to be the most ignorant and stupid people posting. European buildings in East St. Louis? And people referencing the Cabrini Green Housing project in Chicago, which has been completely torn down and replaced with mixed income housing, some of it luxury? How old are some of these pictures, and how many people have actually been to these places? The worst I have seen are North Philly, Camden, Baltimore and Atlantic City, Highland Park, MI as well as New Orleans pre-Katrina. A runner up would have to be Memphis. The south side of Chicago, although high crime in some neighborhoods, does not really look like a ghetto for the most part at all, compared to the previously mentioned places. And Gary looks like a low density, abandoned town along Broadway, the heart of the city, not some wretched Camden twin.
Bushwick looks absolutely nothing like that now. It still has some of the highest crime in NYC but a lot of people are moving into it these days (especially around Grove, which is ironically what's in the foreground of your picture) because it's surrounded on 3 sides by metro lines (Myrtle, Broadway, Wyckoff) and you get a lot of house for the buck.
I've spent a decent amount of time there, in part because one of my uncles used to live there in Flatbush. I got to know Bushwick pretty well the last time I was in NYC.
i havnt been to most of these ghettos but from my eyes the worst ghettos i have seen were the ones in jersey. ive been to Baltimore but i mainly stayed downtown but i do know if i had traveled the city in my car i probably would of changed my vote to bmore over jersey.
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