BALTIMORE HOODS LOOK CRAZY
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A lot of these empty places need to be torn down.. just aceye swore
Majestyx
Duck Season
Hamsterdam 
Those empty houses need to be rehabilitated. There are 16k vacant houses in the city. Tearing them all down would turn many places into an urban Prarie
Home.
T. Dubb Ya
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A while back, I went with a coworker to watch his son play basketball at Morgan State and was shocked at what I saw.. Looked like a straight up third world country.. Had never been in Baltimore prior to that.
Who Not How
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I've been to every U.S. major city for the most part and Baltimore is probably #1 when it comes to how bad the hoods look but you can tell how beautiful the blocks used to be.
One day, I was in West Baltimore and it really looked like a scene out of the Wire. Cats looking like Bubbles pushing shopping carts down the street. Junkies everywhere.
I got a lot of love for the city tho, it has a charm to it that most coastal cities no longer have. I want to see it regain it's prosperity without all the brothas and sistas being pushed out. Just tearing down vacants without building anything on it will make it even more depressing IMO.
Chicago has torn down a lot of buildings on the southside and it doesn't look pretty to me. They even got this project where you can buy a vacant lot if you have a plan for it but I'm not sure how successful the program has been.
One day, I was in West Baltimore and it really looked like a scene out of the Wire. Cats looking like Bubbles pushing shopping carts down the street. Junkies everywhere.
I got a lot of love for the city tho, it has a charm to it that most coastal cities no longer have. I want to see it regain it's prosperity without all the brothas and sistas being pushed out. Just tearing down vacants without building anything on it will make it even more depressing IMO.
Chicago has torn down a lot of buildings on the southside and it doesn't look pretty to me. They even got this project where you can buy a vacant lot if you have a plan for it but I'm not sure how successful the program has been.
Mike Nasty
Veteran
How much worse can it get?
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HandyWithTheSteel
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Some beautiful architecture being destroyed. How does it end up looking like this? 
No lie, the architecture in the Northeast corridor cities are unique (like the shotgun houses in the south). Its a shame how much decay has effected them
Yeah you can tell those neighborhoods used to be beautiful. Old, charming and most importantly, walkable. It’s like Brooklyn or Harlem in the 70s - 90s.
"Baltimore has more rowhouses than any other city in the United States. The long rows of brick catch the sun and seem to glow with that warmth we associate with home. Basement windows hold little dioramas with personal or religious themes, and painted screens turn narrow streets into outdoor art galleries."
"As Baltimore's oldest neighborhoods deteriorated due to age, overcrowding, and absentee landlords who neglected their properties, large areas of the city became derelict. The oldest neighborhoods, like the 120 to 170-year-old row houses in Federal Hill and Fells Point, became slums. By the late 1960s, some of the oldest houses near the waterfront were condemned in order to provide space for an extension to I-95. But a visionary group of preservationists petitioned the government for historical status and, in 1967, had Federal Hill and Fells Point listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It took 10 years to dissuade the government to move the path of the highway, but the movement drew attention to the historic Baltimore waterfront and sparked an urban renaissance for older city row homes."