Ghetto America Blog

[Barker 0]

Found this site looking for something unrelated, pretty sad state that some of our cities are in...

ghettoamerica.blogspot.com

Next time I'm near the ghetto (I think Bedford-Stuyvesant is the closest to me) I'll drive through and snap some pics to post here.

Anyone else have any pics of their home town eye-sores?

-Barker

[DOXXP29 5]

Great find, Barker! I love this kind of stuff. Next time I'm out and about in the D.C. and Baltimore ghettoes, I'll snap a few pix.

[BurroDiablo 222]

Wow, Pripyat all of a sudden seems appealing... lol

[___idiotbox 0]

Wow, this is a great find. It really makes you think about how much you own and how much they don't. The L.A. pictures were interesting. Everyone thinks of LA as a rich city with celebrities when really there are a lot of poor neighborhoods..

I also live near Washington DC and Baltimore. I'm sometimes in Baltimore going to concerts. It's scary to see how they live and those pictures on the site show exactly what it's like. But when it's cold it's harder for them because they sit around trashcan fires with barely any clothes.

[The Terminator 0]

Originally posted by: ___idiotbox Wow, this is a great find. It really makes you think about how much you own and how much they don't. The L.A. pictures were interesting. Everyone thinks of LA as a rich city with celebrities when really there are a lot of poor neighborhoods..

I also live near Washington DC and Baltimore. I'm sometimes in Baltimore going to concerts. It's scary to see how they live and those pictures on the site show exactly what it's like. But when it's cold it's harder for them because they sit around trashcan fires with barely any clothes.quote>

Ellen speaks from experience, She grew up in Winnipeg, and her family had almost nothing to eat during the great Manitoba chum famine of 1948. She and Ian(who later legally changed his name to "Ean"" in 1962) had to roam the North End and scrounge for what little pieces of cloth they could find to make clothes, and they had to take the wooden boards off of abondoned buildings for firewood. he Box's were amoung Canada's poorest.

[IDS2 3,344]

Originally posted by: ___idiotbox Wow, this is a great find. It really makes you think about how much you own and how much they don't. The L.A. pictures were interesting. Everyone thinks of LA as a rich city with celebrities when really there are a lot of poor neighborhoods.. quote>

Ever been to Watts?

Seriously, good find, I thought the San Fran ones weren't really ghetto, just poor. interesting.

[skyliner22 16]

Actually IDS2 The SF ones, called Sunnydale; i can see from my house! Are public housing projects. They are pretty ghetto but you cant really compare west coast ghetto to those of in lets say Detroit, Chicago etc.

Oh and i dont know why but they didnt put up the Hunters Point projects including Double Rock, the center of the city's high crime that recently sprung up.

But then again SF is nothing compared to Richmond!

[purpledaddy 6]

I thought some of the pictures, especially one in DC w/ a toy in front and a couple of others that work-a-day low income housing without filth, were rather poignant.

[The_Dalai_Llama 15]

It shows another reason why we really should stop building outward and focus on cleaning up and developing the inner cities. Not everything is shiny and perfect, even in smaller cities.

[octaves 4]

Wow, that picture of that tall building in Detroit is sad!  Such a nice building, completely torn to crap.  I think I saw it when I was there.  Is it in view on the west side of the Ambassador Bridge?

[Easy Bakes 253]

We have far West Dallas

not a nice neighbor hood.

[Cob92 360]

Houston's got the Third Ward, considered to have some of the worst ghettos in the city. It's kind of sad that these people have to endure the trials of poverty, especially since people like me living out in the suburbs are so rich that we consider mid and lower middle class neighborhoods to be the local ghettos.

[Barbarossa 51]

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[mencc1701 0]

Damn, that blog makes me glad to live in Canada. That scale of dilapidation has mostly been avoided in our inner cities, which is good... those pics are really sad and poignant.

[Bianco 0]

well i have driven through the now famous Compton in LA and it isnt actually that bad Watts however is!

[Maxis92 11]

Originally posted by: Brad-MacD Wow, that picture of that tall building in Detroit is sad!  Such a nice building, completely torn to crap.  I think I saw it when I was there.  Is it in view on the west side of the Ambassador Bridge?quote>

 

That's the Michigan Central Train Station. It's just the shadow of how far America's greatest city has fallen

Someone did a BAT model of it (on STEX).

[patriots_1228 51]

our ghettos are upstate NY compared to most of the world

[panthersimcity4 162]

here in Phoenix we have a couple of very poor neighborhoods, probably about 80% of the people living there are Hispanic immigrants from Mexico, it's very sad.

[Hahayoudied 3]

Those pictures are sad...

[SimRabbit 48]

Very sad pictures indeed.

I have been to some ghettos in Atlanta, it's very sad when you see children joining gangs and doing drugs.

[FlibbidyFleu 0]

Some nice pics (well sad really). If only you could plop a few schools and parks to fix the problem. Slums are a fact of life and I wonder if the problem is more social than political.

Pat's I was in upstate a while back, went of the beaten path, what a suprise! little run down towns in the middle of the woods. I took pics but I can't find them. Even around the Catskills had it's odd run down area's.

Of course Chicago like most other cities has it's fair share of "ghetto". I grew up near a few but nothing that compares to the (former) Cabrini Green and the Rober Taylor Housing Projects.

Good thread!

j

[collgab 10]

They have nothing on San Juan, Puerto Rico...

[your_adress_here 11]

Originally posted by: The Terminator

Originally posted by: ___idiotbox Wow, this is a great find. It really makes you think about how much you own and how much they don't. The L.A. pictures were interesting. Everyone thinks of LA as a rich city with celebrities when really there are a lot of poor neighborhoods..

I also live near Washington DC and Baltimore. I'm sometimes in Baltimore going to concerts. It's scary to see how they live and those pictures on the site show exactly what it's like. But when it's cold it's harder for them because they sit around trashcan fires with barely any clothes.quote>

Ellen speaks from experience, She grew up in Winnipeg, and her family had almost nothing to eat during the great Manitoba chum famine of 1948. She and Ian(who later legally changed his name to "Ean"" in 1962) had to roam the North End and scrounge for what little pieces of cloth they could find to make clothes, and they had to take the wooden boards off of abondoned buildings for firewood. he Box's were amoung Canada's poorest.

quote>

Haha, good old TT.

[DanWalker8 3]

I just returned from a field trip to Flint, Michigan. We walked the neighborhoods... or what is left of them. We also got to meet w/ the local Land Bank that buys up all the vacant parcels and tries to find them local owners so that they aren't bought up by absentee owners. It was a very good insight to how cities are trying to deal with these areas. I am debating on whether or not I want to take this path with my career. I'd also like to add that in some areas the residents have strong organizations that are beginning to farm the vacant plots. Imagine that. Flint still has 120,000 people, but the problem with the neighborhoods is going to expand due to the population demographics.

What solutions are there?

For a town like Flint, it has to invest in education and attract new factories oriented toward the new-energy economy. you heard it from me first, Take care..

[simsmart 1]

Originally posted by: mencc1701 Damn, that blog makes me glad to live in Canada. That scale of dilapidation has mostly been avoided in our inner cities, which is good... those pics are really sad and poignant.quote>

 

Oh ya? Toronto has Jane and Finch.

Found some good pics of Inner-City Toronto: http://jane-finch.com/pictures.htm

[Muck308 55]

In Pittsburgh and the surrounding region, ghettos can be found all along the three rivers (4 if you count the Yough). All the old mill towns like Alliquippa, Ambridge, Millvale, Sharpsburg, Homewood, Brownsville... they are all dillapidated parts of town that used to be "boomtown." After the mills closed these neighborhoods became very undesirable. I knew this before, but a couple years ago I did some door to door sales, and found some really crappy parts of town (where it was actually a lot easier to make a sale than in richer neighborhoods), like Republic, PA. And I mentioned Brownsville earlier... It has a central business district where literally every building is vacant... for blocks. It's sad. I'll post some pics of Western PA's mill towns...

Here is Brownsville

Clariton

Braddock

And Neville, which is actually not that bad of a part of town... I put up this pic to illustrate a point. Gino's is one of the best restaurants in the region, of course nobody knows that. It doesn't look that great from the outside, and the inside is even worse. But the staff is great and the food is awesome, so even the most unattractive place can in fact be very inviting.

Although  I was on my way here for a lunch break one day and found a guy with no pants in the alley to the right... but hey, who hasn't ever been caught with their pants down?

[ruennsheng 0]

It'd be interesting to hear about ghettos when my hometown has almost none...

[pcgirl24 3]

Here is a picture of a very well known ghetto area in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

The Riverside Highrises

[Interchange 0]

I lived in the Arden area of Sacramento last year. Even though it doesn't look that much like a Ghetto, it really is. We were robbed at gunpoint the first month we were there, and a lot of bad things happened even in our own apartment complex during the year that I was there. Even though it didn't look like a ghetto, because of the high end department stores and the mall nearby, it definitely was one.