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I'm going to preface this to say that this definitely wasn't the first time I've been in Mount Pleasant or Ludlow (Cleveland), but it was the first time I had to take this exact route. Long story short, those from Cleveland coming from the south knows I-77 north is closed (at least on weekends, I don't go that way during the work week so not sure if it's only weekends). Anyway, pretty much all my life for me to get to Ludlow since I've lived on either the west side or south, it was E. 55th to Woodland to Buckeye (still a hood trek but at least you can see Buckeye getting "better" the closer you are to South Moreland (Ludlow).
Since I-77 is closed once you get to the city (I-480), and I'm now south, had to take 480 to Broadway, to E. 131. Then GPS took me to E. 130 at Union. I've never been down E. 130 before until today. I kind of knew where I was was, but was shocked at how close I was when I turned onto Griffing. I knew that Mount Pleasant and Ludlow were right next to each other, just didn't realize how drastic the change was, and (even as a life long Clevelander). E. 130th and Griffing is boarded up houses/stores and vacant lots. But you go one block east and get to Moreland and it is pristine suburbia (still city of Cleveland).
I'm pretty well traveled, but I've never seen anything like this, and in my own backyard.
I'm going to preface this to say that this definitely wasn't the first time I've been in Mount Pleasant or Ludlow (Cleveland), but it was the first time I had to take this exact route. Long story short, those from Cleveland coming from the south knows I-77 north is closed (at least on weekends, I don't go that way during the work week so not sure if it's only weekends). Anyway, pretty much all my life for me to get to Ludlow since I've lived on either the west side or south, it was E. 55th to Woodland to Buckeye (still a hood trek but at least you can see Buckeye getting "better" the closer you are to South Moreland (Ludlow).
Since I-77 is closed once you get to the city (I-480), and I'm now south, had to take 480 to Broadway, to E. 131. Then GPS took me to E. 130 at Union. I've never been down E. 130 before until today. I kind of knew where I was was, but was shocked at how close I was when I turned onto Griffing. I knew that Mount Pleasant and Ludlow were right next to each other, just didn't realize how drastic the change was, and (even as a life long Clevelander). E. 130th and Griffing is boarded up houses/stores and vacant lots. But you go one block east and get to Moreland and it is pristine suburbia (still city of Cleveland).
I'm pretty well traveled, but I've never seen anything like this, and in my own backyard.
Detroit's 8 Mile Road is the most famous example, though there isn't as much of a class divide as popular culture might have you thinking (looking at you, Eminem): Moderator cut: link removed, competitor site
Baltimore's Greenmount Ave (part of MD-45) divides a largely lower class, African-American area from a middle class area where a lot of Johns Hopkins students live: https://amp.businessinsider.com/imag...de-960-720.jpg (it's the vertical line roughly running down the middle of the city)
The Troost divide in KC is pretty classic. Major wealth just west of the street and major blight poverty just east. Also less known, but when I was going to school up near Boston. Truman Avenue between Milton, MA and Boston’s Hyde Park.
Its not quite a 1 block area, but if you drive West out of Philadelphia along Lancaster Ave (Route 30), you go from some of the city's roughest sections to some of the nations wealthiest suburbs in probably a 3 mile stretch.
You literally see the change when you cross over the border from Philadelphia County into Montgomery County.
I'm going to preface this to say that this definitely wasn't the first time I've been in Mount Pleasant or Ludlow (Cleveland), but it was the first time I had to take this exact route. Long story short, those from Cleveland coming from the south knows I-77 north is closed (at least on weekends, I don't go that way during the work week so not sure if it's only weekends). Anyway, pretty much all my life for me to get to Ludlow since I've lived on either the west side or south, it was E. 55th to Woodland to Buckeye (still a hood trek but at least you can see Buckeye getting "better" the closer you are to South Moreland (Ludlow).
Since I-77 is closed once you get to the city (I-480), and I'm now south, had to take 480 to Broadway, to E. 131. Then GPS took me to E. 130 at Union. I've never been down E. 130 before until today. I kind of knew where I was was, but was shocked at how close I was when I turned onto Griffing. I knew that Mount Pleasant and Ludlow were right next to each other, just didn't realize how drastic the change was, and (even as a life long Clevelander). E. 130th and Griffing is boarded up houses/stores and vacant lots. But you go one block east and get to Moreland and it is pristine suburbia (still city of Cleveland).
I'm pretty well traveled, but I've never seen anything like this, and in my own backyard.
The Troost divide in KC is pretty classic. Major wealth just west of the street and major blight poverty just east. Also less known, but when I was going to school up near Boston. Truman Avenue between Milton, MA and Boston’s Hyde Park.
More so Mattapan Square and Milton or back in the day Mission Hill and Brookline.
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