Major cities with the most run-down slums (how much, neighborhood)

[Buckeye614]

Philly, Detroit, Baltimore, Cleveland, Chicago etc.

[marothisu]

East St. Louis honestly has the worst "bombed out" areas I've ever seen.

[Nineties Flava]

Originally Posted by marothisu

East St. Louis honestly has the worst "bombed out" areas I've ever seen.

East St. Louis is not a major city though it's directly across the Mississippi from St. Louis.

[313Weather]

Detroit. A city that once had 2 million people and is now only home to 1/3 of that many people has to be filled with slums, yes?

Define "slum."

[do sum'n]

Originally Posted by bradjl2009

How can you have q poll for the entire country when you can only choose one of three cities?

becuz maybe the op was interested in comparing those cities only like he said?

[do sum'n]

i dont understand why nyc gets a pass, it doesnt really look better than philly and has many bad hoods too
maybe its becuz nyc's ghettos are more outta sight, while philly got mad hoods right next to center city, but its prolly also becuz nyc is overhyped and gets a pass for everything

[nei]

Originally Posted by do sum'n

i dont understand why nyc gets a pass, it doesnt really look better than philly and has many bad hoods too
maybe its becuz nyc's ghettos are more outta sight, while philly got mad hoods right next to center city, but its prolly also becuz nyc is overhyped and gets a pass for everything

Because most of NYC's ghettos don't look as run down and decayed. They're more gritty than decayed. Here are two in not so good parts of the Bronx:

https://maps.google.com/?ll=40.85794...36.83,,0,-5.12

https://maps.google.com/?ll=40.81972...115.74,,0,-2.9

Brooklyn:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Brown...351.03,,0,0.96

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Brown...67.21,,0,-1.28

Manhattan:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_a2iSRVaJHY...h/alphabet.jpg

[OptimusPrime69]

Philly in my opinion is absolutely awful looking.

West Philadelphia looks like a bombed out 3rd world country---a cobination of decaying communist housing blocks and dilapidated housing of an East Africxan country---

North Philadelphia looks awful too. Just run down, old, gritty, abandoned row homes, telephone polls, crumbing infrastructure...the roads and the bridges are potholed and rusted-- overgrown weeds and ugly signage--- ugh.

Ceneter city Philly is nice and there are sopme great philly neighborhoods, but a lot of Philly looks awfully depressing.

[do sum'n]

Originally Posted by nei

Because most of NYC's ghettos don't look as run down and decayed. They're more gritty than decayed. Here are two in not so good parts of the Bronx:

https://maps.google.com/?ll=40.85794...36.83,,0,-5.12

https://maps.google.com/?ll=40.81972...115.74,,0,-2.9

Brooklyn:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Brown...351.03,,0,0.96

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Brown...67.21,,0,-1.28

Manhattan:

alphabet.jpg (image)

that manhattan pic tho lol thats pretty damn bad, but looks like its from the past
i seen parts of the bx way worse than that plus within metro nyc u got jus as bad lookin places as in philly like newark, paterson, etc

[do sum'n]

70% of nyc looks run down actually even tho not as bad as some parts of the bx or camden, etc