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Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo have all declined to less than 50% of their peak populations so I'd assume they'd be the worst bigger cities in this department. I live in Baltimore and there's a TON of blight, but St. Louis was significantly worse. The worst city I've ever been to in numerous categories.
Why are NYc and LA on this poll? There is nothing blighted about either city smh!
Right, there's not much real blight left even in the worst neighborhoods. The South Bronx's vacant lots have mostly been filled since the 90s, and the remaining ones are getting filled left and right
Why are NYc and LA on this poll? There is nothing blighted about either city smh!
NYC and LA do not have blight to the level of say, St Louis or Detroit at all. But both cities still have neighborhoods that are impoverished and crime-ridden, and blighted--in a blighted manner that may not be due to people fleeing due to lack of jobs or opportunity, rather, fleeing due to crime, or bad schools, or eminent domain, etc.
So I'm curious with those who know LA and NYC very well, what areas come to mind that are not popular or the public knows about? In NYC, immediately I think of areas like Brownsville and East NY.
Both are very high crime and poor--but I have not visited either since the early 2000's, so I can't speak to their present state now...As for LA, I'm not super familiar outside of the more popular hoods of W Hollywood, downtown, Bev Hills, Koreatown, etc., but know Compton is the popularized urban hood with high crime, drugs, etc.
NYC and LA do not have blight to the level of say, St Louis or Detroit at all. But both cities still have neighborhoods that are impoverished and crime-ridden, and blighted--in a blighted manner that may not be due to people fleeing due to lack of jobs or opportunity, rather, fleeing due to crime, or bad schools, or eminent domain, etc.
So I'm curious with those who know LA and NYC very well, what areas come to mind that are not popular or the public knows about? In NYC, immediately I think of areas like Brownsville and East NY.
Both are very high crime and poor--but I have not visited either since the early 2000's, so I can't speak to their present state now...As for LA, I'm not super familiar outside of the more popular hoods of W Hollywood, downtown, Bev Hills, Koreatown, etc., but know Compton is the popularized urban hood with high crime, drugs, etc.
Brownsville and ENY are poor and run down but not "blighted" in the truest sense. Not enough abandones properties for that to be the case
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