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	== Neighborhoods ==		== Neighborhoods ==

	=== Bagley ===
	The Bagley community is an area in Northwest Detroit whose boundaries are West Outer Drive to the north, Livernois Avenue to the east, West McNichols (Six Mile Road) to the south, and Wyoming Avenue to the west. The community's name is likely derived from Bagley Elementary School, which is the lone public school within the community. This community is situated just west of the Palmer Woods/Sherwood Forest/University District areas of Detroit.

	It is a mostly African-American community of tidy, 1930's era four-square brick homes and has thriving businesses along Livernois, Wyoming, Seven Mile Road and West McNichols Road.

	=== Black Bottom/Paradise Valley ===		=== Black Bottom/Paradise Valley ===
			Black Bottom (also known as Paradise Valley) was a predominantly African-American neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan where black migrants from the South were forced to live because of deed restrictions that made it illegal for them to own or rent property in most of the city.
	''See main article at ]''

			It was demolished in the mid 1960s as part of urban renewal, and was replaced by the Chrysler Freeway (Interstate 75) and Lafayette Park, a mixed-income development designed by Mies van der Rohe as a model neighborhood combining residential townhouses, apartments and high-rises with commercial areas. Black Bottom was located on Detroit's East Side, was approximately 0.5 mile² (1.3 km²) in area, and was bounded by Gratiot Avenue, Brush Street, Vernor Highway, and the Grand Trunk railroad tracks. Its main commercial strips were on Hastings and St. Antoine streets.

			Black Bottom was the cultural and economic heart of the Black community in Detroit from the 1920s through its demolition. Most of the residents, as a result of urban renewal, were displaced ended up in large public housing projects such as the Brewster Homes and Jeffries Homes.

			Hastings Street, which ran north-south through Black Bottom, was the center of Eastern European Jewish settlement before World War I, but in the ensuing years it was transformed into a vibrant African-American community with business, sociability, night life, and underworld activity. It became nationally famous for its music scene: major blues singers, big bands, and jazz artists—such as like Duke Ellington, Billy Eckstine, Pearl Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, and Count Basie—regularly performed in the bars and clubs of Paradise Valley entertainment district.

			Before the Civil Rights Movement began to change Northern segregation in the 1960s, "Negroes" could be thrown in jail if they were seen by the police west of Woodward Avenue—Detroit's main street, which divides the east and west sides of the city. Hastings Street had one of the highest concentrations of black-owned businesses in the United States, and the neighborhood was full of run-down and expensive apartments and multi-family homes owned by Caucasian landlords, with a mix of classes and backgrounds so typical to the urban Black communities of the time.

			Black Bottom suffered more than most areas during the Great Depression since so many of the wage earners worked in the hard-hit auto factories of Detroit. During World War II both the economic activity and the physical decay of Black Bottom rapidly increased, and in the 1960s, the City of Detroit conducted an urban renewal program to combat what it called "urban blight" that bulldozed Black Bottom.

			Other historical Detroit black neighborhoods include Conant Gardens, Russell Woods, and Elmwood Park.


			External links
			Lafayette Park/Mies van der Rohe Historic District
			Black History in Detroit : From GM to Motown
			Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/Black_Bottom%2C_Detroit"
			Categories: History of Detroit \| Detroit neighborhoods \| African-American history

	=== Bricktown ===		=== Bricktown ===
	Bricktown separates the Renaissance Center from Greektown. The area contains an eclectic mix of late 19th century architecture and early 20th century industrial buildings and warehouses. Bricktown is home to St. Peter and Paul’s Catholic Church, the oldest standing church in Detroit, and the Italian Renaissance style Wayne County Building (which was saved from demolition in the early 80’s). The Wayne County Courthouse, (which used to be located in the Wayne County Building), was the place where Mae West was once a defendant on a charge of public indecency. The Bricktown area is now seeing resurgence with the creation of lofts and the addition of the Greektown casino. Though physically it's a tiny area, Bricktown is notable for its live music venues. Jacoby's provides a small performance space for up & coming acts. Around the corner, tSt. Andrew's Hall is a venue for nationally touring acts as is the Shelter in the basement of St. Andrew's.		Bricktown separates the Renaissance Center from Greektown. The area contains an eclectic mix of late 19th century architecture and early 20th century industrial buildings and warehouses. Bricktown is home to St. Peter and Paul’s Catholic Church, the oldest standing church in Detroit, and the Italian Renaissance style Wayne County Building (which was saved from demolition in the early 80’s). The Wayne County Courthouse, (which used to be located in the Wayne County Building), was the place where Mae West was once a defendant on a charge of public indecency. The Bricktown area is now seeing resurgence with the creation of lofts and the addition of the Greektown casino. Though physically it's a tiny area, Bricktown is notable for its live music venues. Jacoby's provides a small performance space for up & coming acts. Around the corner, tSt. Andrew's Hall is a venue for nationally touring acts as is the Shelter in the basement of St. Andrew's.

	=== Brightmoor ===		=== Brightmoor ===
	Brightmoor stretches from Puritan and Schoolcraft Roads (north/south) between ] and Evergreen (east/west). Brightmoor was created in the early 1900's by ] as a neighborhood for his factory workers. The area has been affected economically by the overall reduction in automotive industry jobs in the region. Consequently, the poverty rate is 44% in the neighborhood, compared to a 32% average for the rest of Detroit.		Brightmoor stretches from Puritan and Schoolcraft Roads (north/south) between ] and Evergreen (east/west). Brightmoor was created in the early 1900's by ] as a neighborhood for his factory workers. The area has been affected economically by the overall reduction in automotive industry jobs in the region. Consequently, the poverty rate is 44% in the neighborhood, compared to a 32% average for the rest of Detroit. This area is 74% Black, median income of $10,000, homes cost $30,000,and mothers are 72& single.

	This neighborhood is depicted in the novel ] by Jeffry Scott Hansen.		This neighborhood is depicted in the novel ] by Jeffry Scott Hansen.

	=== Chaldean Town ===		=== Chaldean Town ===
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	=== Conant Gardens ===		=== Conant Gardens ===
	Conant Gardens is located on the East Side of Detroit along east ]. The neighborhood is unusual in that it was originally built and owned by ], starting in the 1910s. The original owner of the property, Schubael Conant, was an ]. In the 1840s, he removed the racially restrictive covenants which prevented land from being sold to African Americans. Similar covenants prevented African Americans from buying land in much of the rest of the city until the late 1940s. Nonetheless, the neighborhood was originally intended as an area for white collar employees of the ] to settle. This plan was never put into action, and a large influx of African Americans after ] helped make the neighborhood primarily black.		Conant Gardens is located on the East Side of Detroit along east ].It is 97% Black, with 25% living in poverty and the houses cost $63,000.And median income is $20,000. The neighborhood is unusual in that it was originally built and owned by ], starting in the 1910s. The original owner of the property, Schubael Conant, was an ]. In the 1840s, he removed the racially restrictive covenants which prevented land from being sold to African Americans. Similar covenants prevented African Americans from buying land in much of the rest of the city until the late 1940s. Nonetheless, the neighborhood was originally intended as an area for white collar employees of the ] to settle. This plan was never put into action, and a large influx of African Americans after ] helped make the neighborhood primarily black.

	=== Corktown ===		=== Corktown ===
			Corktown is the oldest surviving neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan, though it is only half as old as the city itself. Corktown derives its name from the Irish immigrants who settled there; they were primarily from County Cork. By the early 1850's, half of the 8th Ward (which contained Corktown) was comprised of residents of Irish descent.
	''See main article at ]''

			Originally much larger in area, Corktown was reduced in size over the years by urban renewal projects, the building of light industrial facilities and the creation of the Lodge Freeway. The remaining residential section is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is designated as a City of Detroit Historic District.

			The Corktown Historic District is located directly south of Michigan Avenue, and directly west of the Lodge Freeway. The buildings of the Corktown Historic District are largely private residences, although some Michigan Avenue commercial buildings are open to the public.


			External links
			Greater Corktown Development Corporation (GCDC)
			DetroitIrish.org, Information about the Irish Community in greater Detroit.
			Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/Corktown%2C_Detroit"
			Categories: Detroit neighborhoods \| Irish-American neighborhoods

	=== Cultural Center ===		=== Cultural Center ===
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	=== Delray ===		=== Delray ===
			Delray is a racially diverse neighborhood located in the industrial southwest side of Detroit in the U.S. state of Michigan. Delray is bordered by the River Rouge, historic Fort Wayne, I-75, and Zug Island. It's a unique area within the city with its own distinctive local culture and history.
	''See main article at ]''


			History
			The area known as Delray was first platted as "Belgrade" in 1836. It was replatted as "Delray" in 1851. Augustus D. Burdeno, after returning from the Mexican-American War convinced other residents to rename the town after a Mexican village, probably associated with the Battle of Molino del Rey. It incorporated as a village in 1897 and was annexed by the city of Detroit in 1906. The Delray post office became a station of the Detroit post office.

			Traditionally Delray was a working class community that depended heavily on industrial jobs provided by nearby factories. In the past the expanding local industrial economy attracted migrants from the rural South, Appalachia, Hungary, Poland, Ireland, Germany, and Mexico. Like many other communities in the Rust Belt, Delray has been economically hit hard in recent decades by factory closings and the decline in manufacturing. Unemployment and poverty are major challenges confronting residents in Delray today.

			In addition to these economic problems, Delray has been afflicted by the same social breakdown found in other poor urban communities. crime, substance abuse, high school and labor force dropout, and illegitimacy are prevalent in the slums of Delray. An investigate feature story about the white underclass in U.S. News and World Report found that one part of the Delray area had one of the worst white slums in the United States. Local residents, churches, and citizens groups have tried to address these problems.

			A section of Del Ray was recently featured in the film The Island. During a chase scene shots of the Rouge Bridge were cut with shots of a factory on the I-75 service drive in a particularly ugly part of Del Ray.

			Due to the long-time presence of large industrial complexes, the area is considered to be one of the most polluted residential areas in Detroit.


			Sources
			Romig, Walter. Michigan Place Names. Wayne State University Press: Detroit, 1986.
			Environmental Justice Case Study from
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			Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/Delray%2C_Detroit"
			Categories: Detroit neighborhoods \| Michigan geography stubs

	=== East English Village ===		=== East English Village ===
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	=== Indian Village ===		=== Indian Village ===
			Indian Village is a historic neighborhood located on Detroit's east side. It boasts a number of architecturally-significant homes built in the early 20th century. A number of the houses have been substantially restored, and many others well kept up, allowing the area to avoid much of the blight and decay that has characterized other historic subdivisions in the city. The neighborhood consists of several long blocks of the three streets of Seminole, Iroquois, and Burns.
	''See main article at ]''

			Many of the homes were built by prominent architects such as Albert Kahn, Louis Kamper and William Stratton for some of the area's most prominent citizens such as Edsel Ford. Many are very large, with some over 12,000 square feet (1,100 m²). Many have a carriage house, with some of those being larger than an average suburban home. Some of the houses also have large amounts of Pewabic Pottery tile, which is increasingly valuable.

			The area is still in the middle of a large urban city and the relatively affluent homes are a target for petty theft. This keeps the property values low compared to what houses of similar size, construction, and condition in nearby wealthy areas such as Grosse Pointe would be worth. As of 2005, for houses between 3,000 and 12,000 square feet (300 and 1,100 m²), houses are typically offered for sale from $200,000 to $1,000,000. Comparable houses in Grosse Pointe could be worth from 2 to 10 times that much. This community is 63% Black, median income of $33,000, homes run for $280,000, 32% of mothers are single,and 12% are in poverty.


			See also
			Manoogian Mansion - The traditional residence of the city mayor, it is located near Indian Village. The home was given to the city in 1966.

			Reference
			Simmons, Zena. "Detroit's historic Indian Village". Detroit News.

			External links
			Indian Village home prices from Detroitoldhouse.com
			Indian Village Homepage
			Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/Indian_Village%2C_Detroit"
			Categories: Detroit neighborhoods

	=== Krainz Woods ===		=== Krainz Woods ===
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	=== Midtown ===		=== Midtown ===
	Midtown Detroit is an area roughly two square miles between Downtown Detroit to the south and ] to the north. Its boundaries are the Ford, Chrysler, Fisher, and Lodge Freeways. It includes the Art Center and the Medical Center in the northeast quadrant, Wayne State University's campus, the Detroit Public Library, and the Detroit Historical Museum in the northwest, and the Cultural Center including various restaurants, galleries, and nightlife venues along Woodward in the center, among other things. As of the ] of ], there were 16,877 residents living in the area; 19 % of whom were white, considerably more than the 12 % in Detroit as a whole. Asians made up 7.6 % compared to less than one percent in the city of Detroit. The area has experienced a renaissance in the past few years as billions of dollars have been invested Wayne State and others and thousands of new homes constructed or rehabilitated. The daytime population surpasses fifty thousand and includes tens of thousands of Wayne State students, teachers, and doctors at the Medical Center.		Midtown Detroit is an area roughly two square miles between Downtown Detroit to the south and ] to the north. Its boundaries are the Ford, Chrysler, Fisher, and Lodge Freeways. It includes the Art Center and the Medical Center in the northeast quadrant, Wayne State University's campus, the Detroit Public Library, and the Detroit Historical Museum in the northwest, and the Cultural Center including various restaurants, galleries, and nightlife venues along Woodward in the center, among other things. As of the ] of ], there were 16,877 residents living in the area; 19 % of whom were white, considerably more than the 12 % in Detroit as a whole. Asians made up 7.6 % compared to less than one percent in the city of Detroit. The area has experienced a renaissance in the past few years as billions of dollars have been invested Wayne State and others and thousands of new homes constructed or rehabilitated. The daytime population surpasses fifty thousand and includes tens of thousands of Wayne State students, teachers, and doctors at the Medical Center. This section is unfortunately known for the blight that has plagued the city.

	This area includes Brush Park and the Cass Corridor.		This area includes Brush Park and the Cass Corridor.
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	=== Old Redford ===		=== Old Redford ===
	A neighborhood that stretches from Five Points east to Greenfield Road and from ] to Schoolcraft Road. This area encompasses approximately 8 to 10 square miles of land. IT was originally a township outside of the city limits, but was annexed in 1926. Much of the housing stock near the center of the area is a mixture of early 1900s to 1940s homes. The area was serviced by a streetcar until the end of the Detroit street railway system in the 1950s. the main commercial ~~intersecton~~ is at Grand River Avenue and Lahser Road. Near this intersection is the Redford Theater, which is now over 75 years old and still showing movies with the accompaniment of the original Barton theater organ.		A neighborhood that stretches from Five Points east to Greenfield Road and from ] to Schoolcraft Road. This area encompasses approximately 8 to 10 square miles of land. IT was originally a township outside of the city limits, but was annexed in 1926. Much of the housing stock near the center of the area is a mixture of early 1900s to 1940s homes. The area was serviced by a streetcar until the end of the Detroit street railway system in the 1950s. the main commercial intersection is at Grand River Avenue and Lahser Road. Near this intersection is the Redford Theater, which is now over 75 years old and still showing movies with the accompaniment of the original Barton theater organ.

	=== Palmer Woods ===		=== Palmer Woods ===
	Known for its elm-lined streets, large brick homes, and ] architecture, Palmer Woods is located on the west side of Detroit. The area was developed in the ] as an exclusive enclave for the City's managerial and business class. Urban flight after the ] of ], as well as an outbreak of ] in the ], took some of the luster off the once-fashionable community. However, the neighborhood is still a relatively quiet and safe area and popular with more affluent residents of the city.		Known for its elm-lined streets, large brick homes, and ] architecture, Palmer Woods is located on the west side of Detroit. The area was developed in the ] as an exclusive enclave for the City's managerial and business class. Urban flight after the ] of ], as well as an outbreak of ] in the ], took some of the luster off the once-fashionable community. However, the neighborhood is still a relatively quiet and safe area and popular with more affluent residents of the city. This area is 85% black, and houses cost $300,000. Median income is $40,000.

	=== Poletown ===		=== Poletown ===
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	=== Rosedale Park ===		=== Rosedale Park ===
	Located in Northwest Detroit, Rosedale Park includes North Rosedale Park, , a historic Detroit neighborhood of 1694 homes was annexed by the City of Detroit on September 18, 1925. Its homes date to the 1920s and consist of English Tudors, French Normandy Revivals, American colonials, Dutch, Georgian, Spanish Revivals and Cape Cods and bungalows. There is a civic association, club house and park. In a unique situation, the club house, built prior to annexation, is owned and maintained by the civic association/residents. The Park lot was deeded by the sub-divider to the North Rosedale Park Civic Association, and is the only privately owned neighborhood recreation facility in the city of Detroit. Year round traditions in "The Park" include Art Shows and Fairs, Concerts, home tours, neighborhood block parties and the city's largest block/garage sale encompassing 30 blocks within the community.		Located in Northwest Detroit, Rosedale Park includes North Rosedale Park, , a historic Detroit neighborhood of 1694 homes was annexed by the City of Detroit on September 18, 1925. Its homes date to the 1920s and consist of English Tudors, French Normandy Revivals, American colonials, Dutch, Georgian, Spanish Revivals and Cape Cods and bungalows. There is a civic association, club house and park. In a unique situation, the club house, built prior to annexation, is owned and maintained by the civic association/residents. The Park lot was deeded by the sub-divider to the North Rosedale Park Civic Association, and is the only privately owned neighborhood recreation facility in the city of Detroit. Year round traditions in "The Park" include Art Shows and Fairs, Concerts, home tours, neighborhood block parties and the city's largest block/garage sale encompassing 30 blocks within the community. This area is 87% Black, only 6% in Poverty,median income of $25,000, and homes cost $130,000.

	The Rosedale Park club house is also home to the Jim Dandy Ski Club. . Founded in 1958, JDSC is the oldest (and possibly the only remaining) African-American ski club in the world.		The Rosedale Park club house is also home to the Jim Dandy Ski Club. . Founded in 1958, JDSC is the oldest (and possibly the only remaining) African-American ski club in the world.
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	] run through part of Warrendale. Located on each side of the ], the park has a huge picnic area, a playground and swimming pool.		] run through part of Warrendale. Located on each side of the ], the park has a huge picnic area, a playground and swimming pool.

	=== Woodbridge ===
	Woodbridge is a Detroit community with a rich and culturally diverse past, known for its community-centered residents. Named after territorial Governor William Woodbridge, this neighborhood has been home to famous Detroiters throughout history, including Ty Cobb, David Stott, James Scripps, founder of the Detroit News, and George Booth, founder of the Cranbrook Academy. An annual Home and Garden Tour held each September gives the public a firsthand view of the neighborhood and the colorful residents that continue to shape its history. It is also home to creative institutions such as the Boy Scouts of America Detroit Council Headquarters, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Alley.Culture Gallery, Gallery 555, and the 4731 Arts Incubator.

	=== Vernor-Springwells ===		=== Vernor-Springwells ===
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	=== Vernor-Junction ===		=== Vernor-Junction ===
	Vernor-Junction is a commercial and residential neighborhood southwest from downtown Detroit and is considered one of Detroit's "renaissance" areas. It is bounded by ], Clark Street] and Waterman. It is home to Holy Reedeemer Catholic Church, which services the local population. Like Springwells, this area has a large ] population.		Vernor-Junction is a commercial and residential neighborhood southwest from downtown Detroit and is considered one of Detroit's "renaissance" areas. It is bounded by ], Clark Street] and Waterman. It is home to Holy Reedeemer Catholic Church, which services the local population. Like Springwells, this area has a large ] population.

			=== Brush Park ===
			Brush Park, one of Detroit’s first districts of wealth and prominence, was primarily constructed in the 1870’s. The rich architectural detail can still be seen in some of the homes (those still standing that is). The First Presbyterian Church, the original Temple Beth-El (now Wayne State University’s Bonstelle Theater), the First Unitarian Church of Detroit and the Woodward Avenue Baptist Church are all located along the Woodward corridor of Brush Park.By 1900, the district was losing many of its residents to the historic Boston-Edison District, located further north, along Woodward.Jacquie Trost Brush Park is 24 Square blocks it streches from Mack ave to the Fischer Freeway. Brush Park one of Detroit’s oldest and at one time wealthiest neighborhoods.It heads down Winder Street where abandoned brick homes with crumbling porches and missing windows face the multimillion-dollar Comerica Park. Young men stand on street corners of the drug-infested area.Which have rotting Victorian homes that sit adjacent to vacant lots where similar structures once stood, before neglect and time devoured them, and victorian mansions about 70 in all were built for the city’s economic elite, people such as lumber baron David Whitney Jr. and department store owner J.L. Hudson. Families with modest incomes built smaller dwellings, says Katherine Clarkson, executive director of Preservation Wayne, a Detroit architectural preservation group.Around 1895, the rich began to leave for newer upscale neighborhoods such as Boston-Edison and Indian Village where more modern homes included indoor plumbing, electricity and central heat. By 1910 many Brush Park mansions were converted into boarding houses, says Clarkson.19th Century Detroit became a thriving city by brokering its lumber age wealth into an industrial base that provided the basis for the automobile explosion which soon followed.Detroit's upperclass built sumptuous residences on the outskirts of the city which today lay deep within the urban sprawl. These ruins may be seen today in the Brush Park area and along Trumbull Avenue north of Grand River Avenue.


			=== Island view Village ===
			Island View Village area of Detroit about three miles east of downtown. Island View Village on the east side of Detroit.$1.7 million was spent fixing up the neighborhood in 1993, and it appears to be a colorful and bustling area nearly 10 years later, the assessed value of the property rose from $8,600 in 2001 to $35,900 in 2002, indicating that the neighborhood is on the rise, and that this particular structure is in need of an owner with a strong back, deep pockets and an appreciation for decaying Victorian architecture.

			=== Grayhaven ===
			Located between the Detroit River and Jefferson Avenue East, Grayhaven began life as a marina community for millionaires. Today, it has single family homes, apartments and townhouses, all with a nautical view. Like most parts of Detroit this area has been through Devils Night and urban dacay.



			=== Green Acres ===
			Green Acres is popular because it has a mix of relatively new housing.

			=== Riverdale===

			=== Grandmont-Rosedale ===
			Detroits Grandmont and Rosedale Communities are made up of five distinctive neighborhoods, each special in its own way. North Rosedale Park, Rosedale Park, Grandmont, Grandmont #1 and Minock Park are each among the finest residential communities in the city. First developed in the 1920s, these neighborhoods have custom-built homes in a variety of styles including Tudor, colonial, bungalow, and arts and crafts. Many streets feature landscaped boulevards and distinctive brick entry gates.The Grandmont subdivision is bordered by Schoolcraft Road on the south, Asbury Park on the east, Grand River on the north and the Southfield Freeway on the west. This neighborhood of 1200 homes and businesses includes the Detroit Edison Public School (grades K-6) and the newly renovated adjacent park, Ramsay Park.


			=== Van Dyke-Harper ===



			=== Downtown ===

			=== The Eye ===

			=== Westwood Park ===
			Westwood Park, located in northwest Detroit.The area is comprised primarily of low and moderate income families with children. And has suffered from urban decay and abondoned homes.

			=== Sherwood Forest ===
			This area is located on west 7 mile, Livernois, Pembroke, and Parkside. It has two subdivisions Sherwood Forest and Sherwood Forest Manor. These were made in 1916 this area attracted physicians, attorneys, judges, and company executives. All exteriors are brick, stone, and cobcrete. This area is 85% African American. This area has upscale shoe and clothing stores. Only 6% in poverty, and houses cost $300,000.Median income is $40,000.

			=== Franklin Park ===

			=== Minock Park ===

			=== Grandmont #1 ===
			The Grandmont #1 neighborhood is bounded by the Southfield Freeway on the east, Schoolcraft Road on the south, Grandville Street on the west, and Lyndon and Acacia Streets on the north. Located just adjacent to the Grandmont #1 area is Peter Vetal Public School (K-8) and newly renovated Flintstone Park

			=== Berg-Lasher ===

			=== Littlefield ===

			=== North Rosedale Park ===
			North Rosedale Park, an historic Detroit neighborhood of 1694 homes, is bounded by McNichols on the north, Southfield on the east, Grand River on the south and Evergreen to the west. This area is 81% Black, median income of $28,000,only 27% of mothers are single, 4% in poverty,and home cost $172,000.

			=== Core City ===
			This Southwestern neighborhood is filled with vacant homes and vacant lots. This neighborhood is near Martin Luther King Boulevard, east of Grand Blvd and west of Grand River. This neighborhood has had many projects to build new homes and revive the area. The newly built homes usually are priced at $100,000

			=== Joy Farms ===

			=== Barton-McFarlane ===
			Barton-McFarlane community and its 18,000 residents, bound by Plymouth Road, Tireman Street, and railroad tracks running behind Roselawn Street and Schaefer Highway.Tireman-Joy sector is the most stable, and the area from Joy to Chicago is a lower-income neighborhood. The stretch between Chicago and Plymouth are the more dangerous neighborhoods.They have nicknames like “Fort Apache, the Bronx,” after the movie. Alot of home invasions occur in this area. Their are alot of prostitues and gangs. Robberies are very big over there, including carjackings.Areas similiar to Barton McFarlane were some of the hardest hit areas with shootings. Its median household income is $27,497, somewhat below the city-wide median of $29,526.Young men playing street basketball on portable hoops. Drug dealers often use them to appear innocent, and then sell drugs to customers who drive by. Abandoned cars rank high on their list of priorities. Rodents take residence under the hoods of idle vehicles.Prostitution is harder to catch, because many women work out of their homes. The corner of Plymouth Road and Meyers Street is a known hub of activity. Some of the women even solicit men as they leave the Third New Hope Baptist church, just a few blocks away. More cops are being put in this area to stop the amount of crime.

			=== Gold Coast ===

			=== Petosky-Otsego ===

			=== Cass Corridor ===
			70 % of the people that live here are under the poverty line. In the early 1960’s, the area known as Cass Corridor (the area bound by I-75, Lodge Freeway, Woodward and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd) became home to the most concentrated poverty in the State of Michigan, and one of the most poverty stricken area’s in the nation.Although most of the area still holds that stigma, the Cass Corridor is not without it’s fair share of great places. The Masonic Temple (billed as the world’s largest), Cass Tech High School (billed as one of the city’s best) and the Metropolitan Institute for High Technology are all located along Cass. Culturally, the Cass Corridor is one of the most significant districts of the city. The artistic community is closely knit and has produced a plethora of significant artists (see the Tribes of the Cass Corridor site for a comprehensive listing). This includes some of the most significant musical endeavors to come out of the Motor City.The area is again experiencing an era of resurgence. Many of the old commercial buildings are being converted into lofts, and many young people are moving back to the area for a taste of “urban” living. With the hope of changing the area's notorious image, the city renamed the area "Midtown." The locals however, have not taken well to the generic name, and still refer to their neighborhood as the Cass Corridor.Detroit's Cass Corridor is carved out of the shell regions of what was once a thriving downtown area. The corridor's main street is Cass Avenue, which runs parallel with Woodward Avenue, a main Detroit artery running North towards suburban neighborhoods. It travels from Congress Street, ending a few miles further North at West Grand Boulevard, located in the New Center area.Cass Corridor follows the path Cass Avenue and its adjoining streets, but may be considered to encompass a wider area. On its short journey, Cass Avenue passes through once proud, now dilapidated neighborhoods, cuts through the campus of Wayne State University.Bohemian population
			It is perhaps this mixture of students juxtaposed to grinding poverty that has made for an unusual cultural flowering. Unaccountably, many individuals have emerged with vision from this cultural forge and gone forth into the World as poets, painters and musicians. These artists were in a milieu that was not so large as to have no horizon line, yet not so small as make them victims of cultural inbreeding. The result has been a fusion of large interacting cultural cells or tribes, that have allowed these individuals to reap a benefit derived from a cross-fertilization within this greater whole.In the movie 8 mile They showed Chin Tiki which is now vacant and abondoned.

			=== Woodbridge ===
			Woodbrige like most of Detroit has suffered from urban decay and has many vacant lots. Drugs problems are also big in this area, but Woodbridge was a proud and active Detroit community with a rich and culturally diverse past that is still prominent today.Woodbridge is known for its community-centered, friendly residents. Named after territorial Governor William Woodbridge, this neighborhood has been home to famous Detroiters throughout history, including Ty Cobb, David Stott, James Scripps, founder of the Detroit News, and George Booth, founder of the Cranbrook Academy.The rich history left by past residents continues to be celebrated today. An annual Home and Garden Tour held each September gives the public a firsthand view of the neighborhood and the colorful residents that continue to shape its history. Musicians, performers and artists have known Woodbridge for decades as a favorite place to live, rehearse and visit friends. As a quickly reemerging cultural corridor, it is also home to creative institutions such as the Boy Scouts of America Detroit Council Headquarters, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Alley.Culture Gallery, Gallery 555, and the 4731 Arts Incubator.In 1871, Woodbridge began its first major neighborhood development. The area flourished through the 1920's as it enjoyed its location on multiple streetcar lines, which allowed quick access to the rapidly developing downtown.In 1979, the majority of the neighborhood was named a State and National Historic District. As Wayne State University evolved, many of its students began to discover this beautiful area. Enamored with the remarkable architecture and community sensibilities, individuals began a long road to recovery for the neighborhood.As it stands today Woodbridge is one of the fastest-growing areas of Detroit. The inhabitants of the neighborhood are very diverse--in lifestyle, cultural background and income.The land originated as a farm owned by a governor of Michigan, William Woodbridge. After his death in the mid-1800's, the land was divided into parcels. This is when the largest and most opulent housing was built, mostly on Trumbull Avenue, and on the corners of most every block. By the turn of the century, many middle-income and working-class Detroiters filled in the land with more moderate single-family and two-family homes. By the Depression, the inhabitants changed to lower-income residents, and many landlords divided two-family homes into tenements and rooming houses. In the 1980's, college professors took interest in restoring the houses. By this time, much of the housing stock was lost to the wrecking ball through the efforts of Wayne State University to develop the land. The university was forced to stop when the State of Michigan officially recognized the neighborhood as historic. Some of the inhabitants have lived in Woodbridge for more than 40 years. Some of them can trace their roots in the neighborhood back three or more generations.
			The CommunityA mix of such housing attracts a wide spectrum of inhabitants, from homeowners to renters, with low-, middle- and high-income levels. With its proximity to Wayne State University, Woodbridge houses many students and professors, as well as artists, musicians, politicians, professionals, community activists and most of all families. Many landlords rely on referrals for their rentals, as opposed to advertising the neighborhood is special enough to offer such exclusivity.Woodbridge is home to many community organizations and amenities, including a modern art gallery, The Detroit Contemporary; the Dick and Sandy Dauch Boy Scout Center--the Boy Scouts’ headquarters in Detroit; several schools, including a performing arts high school and a school for the deaf; The Woodbridge Star, an ornate Victorian home turned bed and breakfast; several churches; the Trumbullplexa commune/cooperative of sorts, which offers movie nights, live theater, a community information kiosk and weekly food drives for the homeless.

			=== English Village ===
			This area has lost many houses. And know has alot of empty space and vacant lots.English Village is conveniently located on the east side of Detroit adjacent to Indian Village and West Village, which are well established residential neighborhoods. The primary location is at the corners of Sheridan and St Paul, near one of the city's oldest jewels, Belle Isle.

			=== University Heights ===
			Is 87% Black with a median income of $28,000 . And homes cost $200,000. This area was made for white people and separated with a wall. But now is mostly Black.

			=== Eight Mile Wyoming ===
			This neighborhood is 97% Black, 18% live in Poverty, median income is $14,000,and homes cost $50,000. 67% percent of the mothers are single parent. This neighborhood is bounded by 8 mile rd,Pembroke, Santa Barbara, and Birwood. This neighborhood has a wall that separated the Blacks and the Whites in the early 1900's.Built in 1940 this wall presaged the racial divisions that have come to be symbolized by 8 Mile Road. Sometimes called Detroit's mini Berlin Wall, sometimes called the Wailing Wall, this wall in Joe Louis Park does little to betray its shameful past.After World War I, some black residents of Detroit moved into a then rural and vacant area near the intersection of Wyoming and Eight Mile. In 1940, a developer sought to build homes for middle income whites in a nearby area. However, the Federal Housing Administration's policies of that era precluded their approving loans in racially mixed areas. To secure FHA approval, this developer put up a wall six feet high, one foot in width and one-half mile in length to clearly demark the white and black areas. His wall led FHA to approve loans for his project

			=== College Park ===
			This neighborhood is 95% Black, 24% in Poverty, median income is $16,000, Home Cost $70,000 and 54% percent of mothers are single. This area is bounded with,West Michnols, Southfield freeway, 7 mile, and Greenfield road. This neighborhood has Renaissance High School(smartest school in Detroit),Detroit Mercy Campus,and Detroit Medical Center.

			=== Heidelberg Project ===
			This neighborhood is 95% Black, median income of $10,000,32% in poverty,and mothers are 65% single. Homes cost only $ 20,000. This area is found near Mack ave and Mt Elliot st and Ellery st.

			=== Trumbull Ave ===
			Another area rich with gilded age ruins can be found on Trumbull Avenue starting north of Grand River Avenue. This Trumbull Avenue manse was converted into a multiple resident structure which can be seen by the addition in the rear and the add-on porch on the right.A decaying balconys overlooks the once elegant 1890's Trumbull Avenue.The terra cotta brick and limestone mansions that line both sides of Trumbull Avenue.



			=== Fishkorn ===

			=== Rivertown ===
			Stillness reigns over the brick paved streets of Rivertown.In the distance the terra cotta walls of the former Parke Davis facility catch the early morning sunlight.Once slated as the site for Detroit's casinos, Rivertown with its many 19th Century buildings was eventually left out in an immense shell game played between speculators and the city. Today Rivertown sits largely vacant awaiting an uncertain future. Weeds cover the sand volley ball courts of the failed At water Beach Club. On land being acquired for the future construction of three riverfront casinos, the beach club along with the aged Globe Trading Building to the left are two of the many structures to be demolished. Franklin Street is part of a formerly hip area of Detroit known as Rivertown. During the seventies and eighties a number of clubs and night spots sprung up in this area of old warehouses and small businesses along the river just east of downtown. Over the years the city of Detroit made fitful attempts to develop the Rivertown area including a string of parks and marinas. Yet, somehow, the fire never caught and the area remained an area of interesting haunts and clubs interspersed among a wilderness of vacant land and quiet businesses.It came as a surprise when Rivertown was suddenly selected as the future home of Detroit's permanent casinos. By isolating the casinos from the old downtown, it was felt one of the original arguments for casinos, that they would be used to revive the old downtown and spur the growth of peripheral business, was being abandoned. An area of broken dreams and now big hopes, the casino land area of Rivertown has the feel of a schoolhouse in June after the students have left. The remaining businesses are winding down or closing. Others have long ago failed and never reopened.

			=== Briggs ===
			Conditions in Detroit a city used to epitomize the apocalyptic meanings that social commentators have read into the emergence of inner cities (Chafets, 1990; Herron, 1993)--allow the implications of these two predicaments to be both displayed and revised. For all of the routinized scenes that are drawn from this city to illustrate the extreme effects of deindustrialization, Detroit also provides a glimpse of the emergent social forms still grasped only clumsily in the rhetoric of social scientists. The physical nature of slums, here, is being reconfigured. The key problem is no longer overcrowding with its correlates of ill health and rampantly spread diseases. Rather, those who remain living in the deteriorating housing stock in the blighted zones of this city are threatened primarily by a collapsing infrastructure that can no longer support its extension over residential areas that have lost more than a million people in the last forty years. When I began fieldwork in the Briggs neighborhood, the most striking aspect of this area was the vast expanse of green fields that dominated the landscape. On some blocks, only one or two houses remain standing, and there are no blocks that retain all of their structures. In this neighborhood of 0.6 square miles there are more than 450 vacant, grass-covered lots. On summer days, the loudest sounds are from crickets, and pheasants reside in the tall grass.Briggs is one of many Detroit neighborhoods where fields now outnumber houses. The city's population peaked in 1952 at just under 2 million people. This apex was hardly evident at that moment, as city planners were still imagining and designing an infrastructure for a projected population of around 3 million people. Who could have predicted the severe hemorrhaging of people that was soon to follow? Between 1950 and 1990, Detroit's white population declined by 1.3 million people; today, approximately 1 million people still reside in this city, which continues to loose residents to the suburbs. As a result, the city is pockmarked with huge empty spaces that officials are dubious about ever filling with residents again (see figure 1). This unusual situation has forced a search for equally unique solutions.Detroit, these collapsing central zones reveal disparate and highly nuanced cultural conditions. This essay provides a glimpse of the inner city in Detroit a zone that in many ways epitomizes the startling effects of deindustrialization in midwestern and northeastern cities. With its stretches of green fields where hundreds of houses once stood, the Briggs neighborhood, an area within a mile from the city's downtown, is hardly unique as an inner city. However, the residents of this zone where I did fieldwork from July 1992 through February 1994 make an uneasy match with characteristic depictions of the "urban underclass."In Briggs, people joked about bringing in cows to graze or running horses in the meadows. Such an arrangement, they laughed, maybe it would stop all of the drug dealing in the area.
			this area was home to approximately 24,000 people dwelling in 6,000 housing units. Today, less than 3,000 people live in this inner city zone; only about 1,200 housing units remain

			Briggs one of the poorest sections of Detroit’s underpopulated center, the Briggs neighborhood north of Tiger Stadium. Because Briggs is mostly white, Hartigan avoids the awkward old "truisms" of race which rely on an imagined black ghetto, and instead suggests lively, original ways of thinking about how class intersects with preoccupations about race.

			=== Grandale ===

			=== Lafayette Park ===

			=== LaSalle Gardens ===

			=== Fitzgerald park ===

			=== McDougall-Hunt ===

			=== Bagley ===
			The Bagley community is an area in Northwest Detroit whose boundaries are West Outer Drive to the north, Livernois Avenue to the east, West McNichols (Six Mile Road) to the south, and Wyoming Avenue to the west. The community's name is likely derived from Bagley Elementary School, which is the lone public school within the community. This community is situated just west of the Palmer Woods/Sherwood Forest/University District areas of Detroit.

			It is a mostly African-American community of tidy, 1930's era four-square brick homes and has thriving businesses along Livernois, Wyoming, Seven Mile Road and West McNichols Road.

			=== Goldberg ===

			=== Elmwood Park ===

			=== Regent Park ===

			=== Martin Park ===

			=== Michigan-Martin ===

			=== Morningside ===

			=== Forest Park===

			=== Milwaukee Junction ===

			=== Mohican Regent ===

			=== Eliza Howell ===

			=== Alden Park ===

			=== Weatherby ===

			=== Castle Rouge ===

			=== Belmont ===

			=== Russell Woods ===

			=== West Side Industrial ===

			=== Grandmont-Rosedale ===

			=== Van Steuban ===

			=== Conner Creek ===

			=== Hubbard-Richard ===

			=== Carbon Works ===

			=== Ravendale ===
			=== Springwells ===

			=== LaSalle College Park ===

			=== Millenium Village ===

			=== Virginia Park ===

			=== Southwest Detroit ===

			=== Pulaski ===

			=== Boston Edison ===
			Detroit's Boston-Edison District is one of the earliest suburbs in Detroit. It is comprised of many large, single-residence homes that were built between 1900 and 1925. When the Henry Ford Hospital was built in 1915, numerous physicians built homes in the district. Some notable occupants of the Boston-Edison District were Clarence Monroe Burton, donor of the Burton Historical Collection at the Detroit Public Library, Rabbi Leo Franklin, organizer of the United Jewish Charities, Henry Ford, Michigan Supreme Court Justice Joseph Moynihan and Ford Motor Company secretary and treasurer James Couzins. This community is 83% Black, median income of $18,000,11% in poverty, and 21% of mothers are single, homes cost $148,000.

			=== Joseph Barry Subdivision ===
			This area is 72% Black, median income of $30,000,17% in poverty,homes cost $450,000. This is bounded by Fiske, East Jefferson, Parkview,and Detroit River.
			These homes are beautiful mansions.

			=== Greensbriar ===

			=== East Village ===

			=== Jefferson Village ===

			=== Islandview ===

			=== State Fair Grounds ===

			=== Kranz Woods ===

			===West Village ===

			=== Aviation Sub Park ===

			=== Chandler Park ===

			=== Blackstone Park ===

			=== Marina District ===

			=== Five Points ===

			=== Parkland ===

			=== Jefferson-Chalmers ===

			=== Herman Gardens ===

			===Oakman Blvd ===

			=== Jefferies ===

			=== Palmer Park ===

			=== Grixdale ===

			=== Boynton ===

			=== Oakwood Heights ===

			=== Southside 8 mile ===
			Solid bungalow style houses line the serene tree-lined streets south of 8 Mile in Detroit and do little to belive the racial contrast of their owners to those of similar houses just on the other side of 8 Mile(Hazel Park, Warren, and East Pointe).Toward the notheast 8 mile area houses are in great shape, but the more you go west down 8 mile it resembles other parts of Detroit with alot of urban decay.When Detroit's first Afro American mayor made his inaugural speech in the high crime year of 1974 he announced, "To all those pushers, to all rip-off artists, to all muggers: It's time to leave Detroit; hit Eight Mile Road! And I don't give a damn if they are black or white, or if they wear Superfly suits or blue windows with silver badges. Hit the road!"hat was meant to be an anti-criminal declaration somehow became widely misinterpreted as a message to Euro Americans, already in full panic flight, that he was driving Detroit criminal elements into their new neighborhoods.Today Detroit has a population that is 85% Afro American while many of the suburbs north of 8 Mile are almost entirely Euro American, particularly along the borders of Hazel Park, Warren, and East Pointe. The later community even went so as to change its name from East Detroit aka Eastpointe, to underline its separation from the mother city.

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			=== 7 mile rd ===
			7 mile road area is located approximately 7 miles North of the Detroit River measuring from the beginning of Wooward Avenue. 7 mile has suffered from the white flight and urban decay. 7 mile is one of the most dangerous parts of Detroit. Known for drug dealing and gang violence with gangs like the Bloods, Crips, Zone 8 (Z8ne), and many other small gangs like K N B that represent their area. 7 mile runs from Kelly rd to Inkster rd. The most famous rapper in Detroit ] was killed on West 7 mile with a AK-47. 7 mile is also where most D12 members were raised. Alot of youngsters on 7 mile also have a heated rivalry with Brightmoor, 6 mile and 8 mile. In Detroit there are not alot of gangs like Cali and Chicago there are alot of neighborhood rivalries that some times result in gang like activities. Neighborhood gangs out number gangs like bloods and crips in Detroit. You are more often to get in fights in Detroit over what street you from then what gang you from. 7 mile in the Hoover st area has a small portions of Asians (mainly Mong).But is still almost all African American.



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			=== 6 mile(McNichols rd) ===
			6 Mile is not a road it is really McNichols rd which stretches to the East and Westside of Detroit. Other places considered 6 mile is Conner st and Gunston st. 6 mile resembles 7 mile as they are both dangerous with numerous of gangs and drugs. 6 mile is the home of the Eastside Chedda Boyz and other Detroit rappers.

			] Houses like this are found all over Detroit.

			=== 5 mile(Fenkell st) ===

			=== Harper Ave ===
			Harper Ave is a Southeastern part of ] with many abandoned houses, vancant lots and buildings.This area has many gangs and is mostly all ] its located north of the Edsel Ford Fwy. This area is controlled by ] and Drugs and is a one of the most dangerous areas in Detroit.A couple Streets you might see is Chalmers st, Burns st, and Fischer st. Aside from the crime it also has loving families and great neighbors. Detroit is working to clean it up and it is becoming a better neighborhood.

			=== Gratiot Ave ===
			Riding down Gratiot you go through the most dangerous eastside neighborhoods.
			M-3 is a north-south state highway in the U.S. state of Michigan in the Detroit metropolitan area. For most of its length, M-3 is known as Gratiot Avenue.

			Gratiot is one of five major avenues (along with Woodward, Michigan, Grand River, and Jefferson) planned by judge Augustus Woodward in 1805 that extend from downtown Detroit in differing directions. Gratiot runs northeast from downtown and extends into Macomb County.

			Before 2001, the southern terminus of M-3 was at exit 47A (Clark Avenue) of I-75 in the southwest side of Detroit, linking to the Ambassador Bridge, providing an international connection to Ontario's King's Highway 3. Due to exchanges between the Michigan Department of Transportation and the city of Detroit, M-3 was broken into discontinuous segments, and the former Fort Street portion of M-3 was transferred to an extended M-85. Now M-3 extends from Gratiot Avene to Randolph Street south to end at the intersection with Jefferson Avenue in downtown Detroit. The northern terminus is at exit 243 of Interstate 94 in Chesterfield Township about two miles (3.2 km) west of New Baltimore. (M-29 connects to the junction from the east.)

			The total length of the route is approximately 29 miles (46 km).

			The road passes through Detroit into the suburbs. For much of the way it runs more or less parallel with M-97 to the north and with Interstate 94 to the south.

			=== Jefferson ave ===

			=== Mack Ave ===
			Mack Ave is a Southeastern part of ] it has been hit with urban decay and devils night the kind you see on Harper Ave and Brush Park.Vacant homes and lots crowd the neighborhoods.This area has had problems with controlling illegal drugs and gang violence.The Streets are similar to Harper ave's. The city is planning to build new houses where the empty lots now sit. This area is also where Eminem and his 8 mile crew taped parts of the movie ].


			] This is a vacant lot. Once thier were homes here.

			=== Warren Ave ===

			=== John R st ===
			The street that divides Highland Park and Detroit. And East and West 7 mile rd.

			=== Van Dyke st ===


			Van Dyke is part of the Eastside of Detroit where it runs from east Jefferson to the Northern suburbs of Michigan. On Van Dyke there is Kettering High School considered by many as the most dangerous and low educated schools in Detroit. This school is known for gang violence. Van Dyke has a gang known as the Van Dyke Boyz known for jumping people. Like most Detroit gangs they represent thier neighborhood.

			=== Conner st ===

			=== Hoover st ===

			=== Kelly rd ===

			=== Hayes st ===

			=== Schoenherr st ===

			=== State Fair st ===

			=== Tacoma st ===


			=== Dexter Ave ===
			Dexter Ave, this area is very diverse with light and dark skinned African Americans. Usually African Americans mixed with another race such as in Hispanics. They have a gang called the Dexter Boyz who have been having a gang war with the Linwood Boyz for decades. This rivalry has turned violent and very dangerous.

			===Linwood st ===

			=== 12th st ===

			=== Woodrow Wilson st(Woodrow) ===

			=== Joy rd ===
			Joy rd is where alot of robberies occur and gang activity. Made famous for the Murder Mac aka McDonalds because alot of killings and crimes occur there.

			=== West Chicago st ===

			=== Greenfield rd ===

			=== Livernois Ave ===

			=== Plymouth rd(P-Rock) ===
			This areas has had many projects to build new houses because most of them have became "Crack Houses" this area has alot of people below the poverty line. And has alot of shootings. But it is becoming a better and more beautiful place.

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The following is a list of current and historic neighborhoods in Detroit, Michigan:

Neighborhoods

Black Bottom/Paradise Valley

Black Bottom (also known as Paradise Valley) was a predominantly African-American neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan where black migrants from the South were forced to live because of deed restrictions that made it illegal for them to own or rent property in most of the city.

It was demolished in the mid 1960s as part of urban renewal, and was replaced by the Chrysler Freeway (Interstate 75) and Lafayette Park, a mixed-income development designed by Mies van der Rohe as a model neighborhood combining residential townhouses, apartments and high-rises with commercial areas. Black Bottom was located on Detroit's East Side, was approximately 0.5 mile² (1.3 km²) in area, and was bounded by Gratiot Avenue, Brush Street, Vernor Highway, and the Grand Trunk railroad tracks. Its main commercial strips were on Hastings and St. Antoine streets.

Black Bottom was the cultural and economic heart of the Black community in Detroit from the 1920s through its demolition. Most of the residents, as a result of urban renewal, were displaced ended up in large public housing projects such as the Brewster Homes and Jeffries Homes.

Hastings Street, which ran north-south through Black Bottom, was the center of Eastern European Jewish settlement before World War I, but in the ensuing years it was transformed into a vibrant African-American community with business, sociability, night life, and underworld activity. It became nationally famous for its music scene: major blues singers, big bands, and jazz artists—such as like Duke Ellington, Billy Eckstine, Pearl Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, and Count Basie—regularly performed in the bars and clubs of Paradise Valley entertainment district.

Before the Civil Rights Movement began to change Northern segregation in the 1960s, "Negroes" could be thrown in jail if they were seen by the police west of Woodward Avenue—Detroit's main street, which divides the east and west sides of the city. Hastings Street had one of the highest concentrations of black-owned businesses in the United States, and the neighborhood was full of run-down and expensive apartments and multi-family homes owned by Caucasian landlords, with a mix of classes and backgrounds so typical to the urban Black communities of the time.

Black Bottom suffered more than most areas during the Great Depression since so many of the wage earners worked in the hard-hit auto factories of Detroit. During World War II both the economic activity and the physical decay of Black Bottom rapidly increased, and in the 1960s, the City of Detroit conducted an urban renewal program to combat what it called "urban blight" that bulldozed Black Bottom.

Other historical Detroit black neighborhoods include Conant Gardens, Russell Woods, and Elmwood Park.

External links Lafayette Park/Mies van der Rohe Historic District Black History in Detroit : From GM to Motown Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/Black_Bottom%2C_Detroit" Categories: History of Detroit | Detroit neighborhoods | African-American history

Bricktown

Bricktown separates the Renaissance Center from Greektown. The area contains an eclectic mix of late 19th century architecture and early 20th century industrial buildings and warehouses. Bricktown is home to St. Peter and Paul’s Catholic Church, the oldest standing church in Detroit, and the Italian Renaissance style Wayne County Building (which was saved from demolition in the early 80’s). The Wayne County Courthouse, (which used to be located in the Wayne County Building), was the place where Mae West was once a defendant on a charge of public indecency. The Bricktown area is now seeing resurgence with the creation of lofts and the addition of the Greektown casino. Though physically it's a tiny area, Bricktown is notable for its live music venues. Jacoby's provides a small performance space for up & coming acts. Around the corner, tSt. Andrew's Hall is a venue for nationally touring acts as is the Shelter in the basement of St. Andrew's.

Brightmoor

Brightmoor stretches from Puritan and Schoolcraft Roads (north/south) between Telegraph Road and Evergreen (east/west). Brightmoor was created in the early 1900's by Henry Ford as a neighborhood for his factory workers. The area has been affected economically by the overall reduction in automotive industry jobs in the region. Consequently, the poverty rate is 44% in the neighborhood, compared to a 32% average for the rest of Detroit. This area is 74% Black, median income of $10,000, homes cost $30,000,and mothers are 72& single.

This neighborhood is depicted in the novel Warpath by Jeffry Scott Hansen.

Chaldean Town

Chaldean Town runs along 7 Mile road from Woodward Avenue east to John R. road. The area was designated in 1999 as an economic district featuring Chaldean owned businesses, but it has a longer history of residential settlement by Chaldean immigrants dating back to the 1960s. Chaldean Town is often seen as a "staging area" for new immigrants to settle before moving on to other ethnic enclaves in the northern suburbs of Detroit, though many retain the ownership of businesses in the area after moving to the suburbs.

Conant Gardens

Conant Gardens is located on the East Side of Detroit along east 7 Mile Road.It is 97% Black, with 25% living in poverty and the houses cost $63,000.And median income is $20,000. The neighborhood is unusual in that it was originally built and owned by African Americans, starting in the 1910s. The original owner of the property, Schubael Conant, was an abolitionist. In the 1840s, he removed the racially restrictive covenants which prevented land from being sold to African Americans. Similar covenants prevented African Americans from buying land in much of the rest of the city until the late 1940s. Nonetheless, the neighborhood was originally intended as an area for white collar employees of the Ford Motor Company to settle. This plan was never put into action, and a large influx of African Americans after World War I helped make the neighborhood primarily black.

Corktown

Corktown is the oldest surviving neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan, though it is only half as old as the city itself. Corktown derives its name from the Irish immigrants who settled there; they were primarily from County Cork. By the early 1850's, half of the 8th Ward (which contained Corktown) was comprised of residents of Irish descent.

Originally much larger in area, Corktown was reduced in size over the years by urban renewal projects, the building of light industrial facilities and the creation of the Lodge Freeway. The remaining residential section is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is designated as a City of Detroit Historic District.

The Corktown Historic District is located directly south of Michigan Avenue, and directly west of the Lodge Freeway. The buildings of the Corktown Historic District are largely private residences, although some Michigan Avenue commercial buildings are open to the public.

External links Greater Corktown Development Corporation (GCDC) DetroitIrish.org, Information about the Irish Community in greater Detroit. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/Corktown%2C_Detroit" Categories: Detroit neighborhoods | Irish-American neighborhoods

Cultural Center

The Cultural Center is a district that includes a number of museums and attractions. Located about two miles (3 km) north of downtown, the Cultural Center is roughly bounded by Woodward Avenue to the west, Interstate 75 to the east, Interstate 94 to the north and Warren Avenue to the south. Attractions include the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Scarab Club, the Detroit Historical Museum, the main library of the Detroit public library system and the Detroit Science Center. The College for Creative Studies is located adjacent the Scarab Club and opposite the East face of the Detroit Institute of Arts. The main campus of Wayne State University is located adjacent to the area, on the opposite side of Woodward.

Delray

Delray is a racially diverse neighborhood located in the industrial southwest side of Detroit in the U.S. state of Michigan. Delray is bordered by the River Rouge, historic Fort Wayne, I-75, and Zug Island. It's a unique area within the city with its own distinctive local culture and history.

History The area known as Delray was first platted as "Belgrade" in 1836. It was replatted as "Delray" in 1851. Augustus D. Burdeno, after returning from the Mexican-American War convinced other residents to rename the town after a Mexican village, probably associated with the Battle of Molino del Rey. It incorporated as a village in 1897 and was annexed by the city of Detroit in 1906. The Delray post office became a station of the Detroit post office.

Traditionally Delray was a working class community that depended heavily on industrial jobs provided by nearby factories. In the past the expanding local industrial economy attracted migrants from the rural South, Appalachia, Hungary, Poland, Ireland, Germany, and Mexico. Like many other communities in the Rust Belt, Delray has been economically hit hard in recent decades by factory closings and the decline in manufacturing. Unemployment and poverty are major challenges confronting residents in Delray today.

In addition to these economic problems, Delray has been afflicted by the same social breakdown found in other poor urban communities. crime, substance abuse, high school and labor force dropout, and illegitimacy are prevalent in the slums of Delray. An investigate feature story about the white underclass in U.S. News and World Report found that one part of the Delray area had one of the worst white slums in the United States. Local residents, churches, and citizens groups have tried to address these problems.

A section of Del Ray was recently featured in the film The Island. During a chase scene shots of the Rouge Bridge were cut with shots of a factory on the I-75 service drive in a particularly ugly part of Del Ray.

Due to the long-time presence of large industrial complexes, the area is considered to be one of the most polluted residential areas in Detroit.

Sources Romig, Walter. Michigan Place Names. Wayne State University Press: Detroit, 1986. Environmental Justice Case Study from

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East English Village

East English Village is among the most integrated communities in the highly segregated greater Detroit area. The tree-lined streets of East English Village feature a variety of homes ranging from small bungalows to large, luxurious older homes. The housing stock also includes a large number of two-family homes. An active neighborhood association enhances community life.

Eastern Market

Eastern Market is a historic commercial district in Detroit. It is located approximately one mile (1.6 km) northeast of the city's downtown and is bordered on the south by Gratiot Avenue. First open in 1841, the district was expanded significantly in 1921 and presently covers 43 acres (174,000 m²). Eastern Market is a selling point for a wide variety of produce, meat, spice and other products. It is particularly busy on Saturdays, when farmers tend to bring in their poultry and livestock, along with fresh produce, for sale.

Greektown

Greektown is located less than half a mile (0.8 km) from the Renaissance Center in the downtown area. It is comprised of only a few city blocks, with Monroe Street at the center. The neighborhood is a popular restaurant and entertainment district, having many restaurants that serve authentic Greek cuisine, as well as one of the city's three casinos, Greektown Casino. Certain buildings on Monroe Street are themed to resemble the Parthenon, Pegasus, and other forms of Greek architecture. Greek music is also played on Monroe Street throughout the day. Well known restaurants include Cyprus Taverna, New Hellas Café, Pegasus Taverna, and Pizza Papalis. The Detroit People Mover has a station at the Greektown Casino on Beaubien Street between Monroe Street and Lafayette Boulevard.

Indian Village

Indian Village is a historic neighborhood located on Detroit's east side. It boasts a number of architecturally-significant homes built in the early 20th century. A number of the houses have been substantially restored, and many others well kept up, allowing the area to avoid much of the blight and decay that has characterized other historic subdivisions in the city. The neighborhood consists of several long blocks of the three streets of Seminole, Iroquois, and Burns.

Many of the homes were built by prominent architects such as Albert Kahn, Louis Kamper and William Stratton for some of the area's most prominent citizens such as Edsel Ford. Many are very large, with some over 12,000 square feet (1,100 m²). Many have a carriage house, with some of those being larger than an average suburban home. Some of the houses also have large amounts of Pewabic Pottery tile, which is increasingly valuable.

The area is still in the middle of a large urban city and the relatively affluent homes are a target for petty theft. This keeps the property values low compared to what houses of similar size, construction, and condition in nearby wealthy areas such as Grosse Pointe would be worth. As of 2005, for houses between 3,000 and 12,000 square feet (300 and 1,100 m²), houses are typically offered for sale from $200,000 to $1,000,000. Comparable houses in Grosse Pointe could be worth from 2 to 10 times that much. This community is 63% Black, median income of $33,000, homes run for $280,000, 32% of mothers are single,and 12% are in poverty.

See also Manoogian Mansion - The traditional residence of the city mayor, it is located near Indian Village. The home was given to the city in 1966. Reference Simmons, Zena. "Detroit's historic Indian Village". Detroit News. External links Indian Village home prices from Detroitoldhouse.com Indian Village Homepage Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/Indian_Village%2C_Detroit" Categories: Detroit neighborhoods

Krainz Woods

Krainz Woods stretches from 7 Mile Road and Ryan Road to 7 Mile and Mound Road. The Sojourner Truth Homes housing project is located there. The neighborhood was named after Captain John Krainz, a World War II hero from Detroit.

Mexicantown

Mexicantown is located in Southwest Detroit, near Springwells and Vernor-Junction. It is located one block north of the Ambassador Bridge. It is known for good Mexican cuisine at restaurants such as Mexican Village, Evie's Tamales, El Zocalo and Xochimilco. Restaurants, bakeries, and shops are located on Bagley, both the east and west sides of the Interstate 75 service drive.

Mexicantown has had a thriving economy in recent years, as evidenced by new housing, increased business openings and the forthcoming Mexicantown International Welcome Center. Per the 3rd Precinct of the Detroit Police Department, the area is the safest neighborhood in Detroit.

Musician Jack White grew up in Mexicantown.

Midtown

Midtown Detroit is an area roughly two square miles between Downtown Detroit to the south and New Center to the north. Its boundaries are the Ford, Chrysler, Fisher, and Lodge Freeways. It includes the Art Center and the Medical Center in the northeast quadrant, Wayne State University's campus, the Detroit Public Library, and the Detroit Historical Museum in the northwest, and the Cultural Center including various restaurants, galleries, and nightlife venues along Woodward in the center, among other things. As of the census of 2000, there were 16,877 residents living in the area; 19 % of whom were white, considerably more than the 12 % in Detroit as a whole. Asians made up 7.6 % compared to less than one percent in the city of Detroit. The area has experienced a renaissance in the past few years as billions of dollars have been invested Wayne State and others and thousands of new homes constructed or rehabilitated. The daytime population surpasses fifty thousand and includes tens of thousands of Wayne State students, teachers, and doctors at the Medical Center. This section is unfortunately known for the blight that has plagued the city.

This area includes Brush Park and the Cass Corridor.

New Center

The New Center is a commercial district located approximately three miles (4.8 km) north of the city's downtown, and one mile (1.6 km) north of the Cultural Center, around the intersection of Woodward Avenue and Grand Boulevard (which is sometimes referred to as The Boulevard). Developed in the 1920s, it was designed to create a business hub that would offer convenient access to both downtown resources and outlying factories. Some historians believe that the New Center may be the original edge city - a sub-center remote from but related to an urban core. From 1923 to 1996, General Motors maintained its world headquarters in the New Center (in what is now Cadillac Place) before relocating downtown to the Renaissance Center. Cadillac Place is now occupied by State of Michigan government offices. The descriptor "New Center" derived its name from the New Center News, an automotive-focused free newspaper begun in 1933 that continues to operate under the name Detroit Auto Scene.

The Comerica Tastefest, a five-day street festival held around Independence Day, takes place on the streets of New Center.

The Fisher Building, considered an Art Deco masterpiece, sits in the New Center.

Old Redford

A neighborhood that stretches from Five Points east to Greenfield Road and from 8 Mile Road to Schoolcraft Road. This area encompasses approximately 8 to 10 square miles of land. IT was originally a township outside of the city limits, but was annexed in 1926. Much of the housing stock near the center of the area is a mixture of early 1900s to 1940s homes. The area was serviced by a streetcar until the end of the Detroit street railway system in the 1950s. the main commercial intersection is at Grand River Avenue and Lahser Road. Near this intersection is the Redford Theater, which is now over 75 years old and still showing movies with the accompaniment of the original Barton theater organ.

Palmer Woods

Known for its elm-lined streets, large brick homes, and Tudor style architecture, Palmer Woods is located on the west side of Detroit. The area was developed in the 1920s as an exclusive enclave for the City's managerial and business class. Urban flight after the 12th Street Riot of 1967, as well as an outbreak of Dutch Elm disease in the 1970s, took some of the luster off the once-fashionable community. However, the neighborhood is still a relatively quiet and safe area and popular with more affluent residents of the city. This area is 85% black, and houses cost $300,000. Median income is $40,000.

Poletown

see main article at Poletown, Detroit

Rosedale Park

Located in Northwest Detroit, Rosedale Park includes North Rosedale Park, , a historic Detroit neighborhood of 1694 homes was annexed by the City of Detroit on September 18, 1925. Its homes date to the 1920s and consist of English Tudors, French Normandy Revivals, American colonials, Dutch, Georgian, Spanish Revivals and Cape Cods and bungalows. There is a civic association, club house and park. In a unique situation, the club house, built prior to annexation, is owned and maintained by the civic association/residents. The Park lot was deeded by the sub-divider to the North Rosedale Park Civic Association, and is the only privately owned neighborhood recreation facility in the city of Detroit. Year round traditions in "The Park" include Art Shows and Fairs, Concerts, home tours, neighborhood block parties and the city's largest block/garage sale encompassing 30 blocks within the community. This area is 87% Black, only 6% in Poverty,median income of $25,000, and homes cost $130,000.

The Rosedale Park club house is also home to the Jim Dandy Ski Club. . Founded in 1958, JDSC is the oldest (and possibly the only remaining) African-American ski club in the world.

Warrendale

Warrendale is a neighborhood with approximate borders of Joy Road to the north, Ford Road to the south, Southfield Freeway to the east and the River Rouge to the west. Warrendale borders the communities of Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and Redford.

Warrendale is composed of bungalows dating from the 1930s to the 1950s. This area was predominantly Polish until recently with many Polish-owned businesses and an annual Warrendale Polish Festival.

River Rouge Park run through part of Warrendale. Located on each side of the River Rouge, the park has a huge picnic area, a playground and swimming pool.

Vernor-Springwells

Also knows as just "Springwells", this Southwestern Detroit neighborhood is near the Ford Rouge Plant in Dearborn. Springwells is largely residential, and in 2002, part of Springwells was recognized as a national historic district .

Vernor-Junction

Vernor-Junction is a commercial and residential neighborhood southwest from downtown Detroit and is considered one of Detroit's "renaissance" areas. It is bounded by Michigan Avenue, Clark StreetI-75 and Waterman. It is home to Holy Reedeemer Catholic Church, which services the local population. Like Springwells, this area has a large hispanic population.

Brush Park

Brush Park, one of Detroit’s first districts of wealth and prominence, was primarily constructed in the 1870’s. The rich architectural detail can still be seen in some of the homes (those still standing that is). The First Presbyterian Church, the original Temple Beth-El (now Wayne State University’s Bonstelle Theater), the First Unitarian Church of Detroit and the Woodward Avenue Baptist Church are all located along the Woodward corridor of Brush Park.By 1900, the district was losing many of its residents to the historic Boston-Edison District, located further north, along Woodward.Jacquie Trost Brush Park is 24 Square blocks it streches from Mack ave to the Fischer Freeway. Brush Park one of Detroit’s oldest and at one time wealthiest neighborhoods.It heads down Winder Street where abandoned brick homes with crumbling porches and missing windows face the multimillion-dollar Comerica Park. Young men stand on street corners of the drug-infested area.Which have rotting Victorian homes that sit adjacent to vacant lots where similar structures once stood, before neglect and time devoured them, and victorian mansions about 70 in all were built for the city’s economic elite, people such as lumber baron David Whitney Jr. and department store owner J.L. Hudson. Families with modest incomes built smaller dwellings, says Katherine Clarkson, executive director of Preservation Wayne, a Detroit architectural preservation group.Around 1895, the rich began to leave for newer upscale neighborhoods such as Boston-Edison and Indian Village where more modern homes included indoor plumbing, electricity and central heat. By 1910 many Brush Park mansions were converted into boarding houses, says Clarkson.19th Century Detroit became a thriving city by brokering its lumber age wealth into an industrial base that provided the basis for the automobile explosion which soon followed.Detroit's upperclass built sumptuous residences on the outskirts of the city which today lay deep within the urban sprawl. These ruins may be seen today in the Brush Park area and along Trumbull Avenue north of Grand River Avenue.

Island view Village

Island View Village area of Detroit about three miles east of downtown. Island View Village on the east side of Detroit.$1.7 million was spent fixing up the neighborhood in 1993, and it appears to be a colorful and bustling area nearly 10 years later, the assessed value of the property rose from $8,600 in 2001 to $35,900 in 2002, indicating that the neighborhood is on the rise, and that this particular structure is in need of an owner with a strong back, deep pockets and an appreciation for decaying Victorian architecture.

Grayhaven

Located between the Detroit River and Jefferson Avenue East, Grayhaven began life as a marina community for millionaires. Today, it has single family homes, apartments and townhouses, all with a nautical view. Like most parts of Detroit this area has been through Devils Night and urban dacay.

Green Acres

Green Acres is popular because it has a mix of relatively new housing.

Riverdale

Grandmont-Rosedale

Detroits Grandmont and Rosedale Communities are made up of five distinctive neighborhoods, each special in its own way. North Rosedale Park, Rosedale Park, Grandmont, Grandmont #1 and Minock Park are each among the finest residential communities in the city. First developed in the 1920s, these neighborhoods have custom-built homes in a variety of styles including Tudor, colonial, bungalow, and arts and crafts. Many streets feature landscaped boulevards and distinctive brick entry gates.The Grandmont subdivision is bordered by Schoolcraft Road on the south, Asbury Park on the east, Grand River on the north and the Southfield Freeway on the west. This neighborhood of 1200 homes and businesses includes the Detroit Edison Public School (grades K-6) and the newly renovated adjacent park, Ramsay Park.

Van Dyke-Harper

Downtown

The Eye

Westwood Park

Westwood Park, located in northwest Detroit.The area is comprised primarily of low and moderate income families with children. And has suffered from urban decay and abondoned homes.

Sherwood Forest

This area is located on west 7 mile, Livernois, Pembroke, and Parkside. It has two subdivisions Sherwood Forest and Sherwood Forest Manor. These were made in 1916 this area attracted physicians, attorneys, judges, and company executives. All exteriors are brick, stone, and cobcrete. This area is 85% African American. This area has upscale shoe and clothing stores. Only 6% in poverty, and houses cost $300,000.Median income is $40,000.

Franklin Park

Minock Park

Grandmont #1

The Grandmont #1 neighborhood is bounded by the Southfield Freeway on the east, Schoolcraft Road on the south, Grandville Street on the west, and Lyndon and Acacia Streets on the north. Located just adjacent to the Grandmont #1 area is Peter Vetal Public School (K-8) and newly renovated Flintstone Park

Berg-Lasher

Littlefield

North Rosedale Park

North Rosedale Park, an historic Detroit neighborhood of 1694 homes, is bounded by McNichols on the north, Southfield on the east, Grand River on the south and Evergreen to the west. This area is 81% Black, median income of $28,000,only 27% of mothers are single, 4% in poverty,and home cost $172,000.

Core City

This Southwestern neighborhood is filled with vacant homes and vacant lots. This neighborhood is near Martin Luther King Boulevard, east of Grand Blvd and west of Grand River. This neighborhood has had many projects to build new homes and revive the area. The newly built homes usually are priced at $100,000

Joy Farms

Barton-McFarlane

Barton-McFarlane community and its 18,000 residents, bound by Plymouth Road, Tireman Street, and railroad tracks running behind Roselawn Street and Schaefer Highway.Tireman-Joy sector is the most stable, and the area from Joy to Chicago is a lower-income neighborhood. The stretch between Chicago and Plymouth are the more dangerous neighborhoods.They have nicknames like “Fort Apache, the Bronx,” after the movie. Alot of home invasions occur in this area. Their are alot of prostitues and gangs. Robberies are very big over there, including carjackings.Areas similiar to Barton McFarlane were some of the hardest hit areas with shootings. Its median household income is $27,497, somewhat below the city-wide median of $29,526.Young men playing street basketball on portable hoops. Drug dealers often use them to appear innocent, and then sell drugs to customers who drive by. Abandoned cars rank high on their list of priorities. Rodents take residence under the hoods of idle vehicles.Prostitution is harder to catch, because many women work out of their homes. The corner of Plymouth Road and Meyers Street is a known hub of activity. Some of the women even solicit men as they leave the Third New Hope Baptist church, just a few blocks away. More cops are being put in this area to stop the amount of crime.

Gold Coast

Petosky-Otsego

Cass Corridor

70 % of the people that live here are under the poverty line. In the early 1960’s, the area known as Cass Corridor (the area bound by I-75, Lodge Freeway, Woodward and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd) became home to the most concentrated poverty in the State of Michigan, and one of the most poverty stricken area’s in the nation.Although most of the area still holds that stigma, the Cass Corridor is not without it’s fair share of great places. The Masonic Temple (billed as the world’s largest), Cass Tech High School (billed as one of the city’s best) and the Metropolitan Institute for High Technology are all located along Cass. Culturally, the Cass Corridor is one of the most significant districts of the city. The artistic community is closely knit and has produced a plethora of significant artists (see the Tribes of the Cass Corridor site for a comprehensive listing). This includes some of the most significant musical endeavors to come out of the Motor City.The area is again experiencing an era of resurgence. Many of the old commercial buildings are being converted into lofts, and many young people are moving back to the area for a taste of “urban” living. With the hope of changing the area's notorious image, the city renamed the area "Midtown." The locals however, have not taken well to the generic name, and still refer to their neighborhood as the Cass Corridor.Detroit's Cass Corridor is carved out of the shell regions of what was once a thriving downtown area. The corridor's main street is Cass Avenue, which runs parallel with Woodward Avenue, a main Detroit artery running North towards suburban neighborhoods. It travels from Congress Street, ending a few miles further North at West Grand Boulevard, located in the New Center area.Cass Corridor follows the path Cass Avenue and its adjoining streets, but may be considered to encompass a wider area. On its short journey, Cass Avenue passes through once proud, now dilapidated neighborhoods, cuts through the campus of Wayne State University.Bohemian population It is perhaps this mixture of students juxtaposed to grinding poverty that has made for an unusual cultural flowering. Unaccountably, many individuals have emerged with vision from this cultural forge and gone forth into the World as poets, painters and musicians. These artists were in a milieu that was not so large as to have no horizon line, yet not so small as make them victims of cultural inbreeding. The result has been a fusion of large interacting cultural cells or tribes, that have allowed these individuals to reap a benefit derived from a cross-fertilization within this greater whole.In the movie 8 mile They showed Chin Tiki which is now vacant and abondoned.

Woodbridge

Woodbrige like most of Detroit has suffered from urban decay and has many vacant lots. Drugs problems are also big in this area, but Woodbridge was a proud and active Detroit community with a rich and culturally diverse past that is still prominent today.Woodbridge is known for its community-centered, friendly residents. Named after territorial Governor William Woodbridge, this neighborhood has been home to famous Detroiters throughout history, including Ty Cobb, David Stott, James Scripps, founder of the Detroit News, and George Booth, founder of the Cranbrook Academy.The rich history left by past residents continues to be celebrated today. An annual Home and Garden Tour held each September gives the public a firsthand view of the neighborhood and the colorful residents that continue to shape its history. Musicians, performers and artists have known Woodbridge for decades as a favorite place to live, rehearse and visit friends. As a quickly reemerging cultural corridor, it is also home to creative institutions such as the Boy Scouts of America Detroit Council Headquarters, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Alley.Culture Gallery, Gallery 555, and the 4731 Arts Incubator.In 1871, Woodbridge began its first major neighborhood development. The area flourished through the 1920's as it enjoyed its location on multiple streetcar lines, which allowed quick access to the rapidly developing downtown.In 1979, the majority of the neighborhood was named a State and National Historic District. As Wayne State University evolved, many of its students began to discover this beautiful area. Enamored with the remarkable architecture and community sensibilities, individuals began a long road to recovery for the neighborhood.As it stands today Woodbridge is one of the fastest-growing areas of Detroit. The inhabitants of the neighborhood are very diverse--in lifestyle, cultural background and income.The land originated as a farm owned by a governor of Michigan, William Woodbridge. After his death in the mid-1800's, the land was divided into parcels. This is when the largest and most opulent housing was built, mostly on Trumbull Avenue, and on the corners of most every block. By the turn of the century, many middle-income and working-class Detroiters filled in the land with more moderate single-family and two-family homes. By the Depression, the inhabitants changed to lower-income residents, and many landlords divided two-family homes into tenements and rooming houses. In the 1980's, college professors took interest in restoring the houses. By this time, much of the housing stock was lost to the wrecking ball through the efforts of Wayne State University to develop the land. The university was forced to stop when the State of Michigan officially recognized the neighborhood as historic. Some of the inhabitants have lived in Woodbridge for more than 40 years. Some of them can trace their roots in the neighborhood back three or more generations. The CommunityA mix of such housing attracts a wide spectrum of inhabitants, from homeowners to renters, with low-, middle- and high-income levels. With its proximity to Wayne State University, Woodbridge houses many students and professors, as well as artists, musicians, politicians, professionals, community activists and most of all families. Many landlords rely on referrals for their rentals, as opposed to advertising the neighborhood is special enough to offer such exclusivity.Woodbridge is home to many community organizations and amenities, including a modern art gallery, The Detroit Contemporary; the Dick and Sandy Dauch Boy Scout Center--the Boy Scouts’ headquarters in Detroit; several schools, including a performing arts high school and a school for the deaf; The Woodbridge Star, an ornate Victorian home turned bed and breakfast; several churches; the Trumbullplexa commune/cooperative of sorts, which offers movie nights, live theater, a community information kiosk and weekly food drives for the homeless.

English Village

This area has lost many houses. And know has alot of empty space and vacant lots.English Village is conveniently located on the east side of Detroit adjacent to Indian Village and West Village, which are well established residential neighborhoods. The primary location is at the corners of Sheridan and St Paul, near one of the city's oldest jewels, Belle Isle.

University Heights

Is 87% Black with a median income of $28,000 . And homes cost $200,000. This area was made for white people and separated with a wall. But now is mostly Black.

Eight Mile Wyoming

This neighborhood is 97% Black, 18% live in Poverty, median income is $14,000,and homes cost $50,000. 67% percent of the mothers are single parent. This neighborhood is bounded by 8 mile rd,Pembroke, Santa Barbara, and Birwood. This neighborhood has a wall that separated the Blacks and the Whites in the early 1900's.Built in 1940 this wall presaged the racial divisions that have come to be symbolized by 8 Mile Road. Sometimes called Detroit's mini Berlin Wall, sometimes called the Wailing Wall, this wall in Joe Louis Park does little to betray its shameful past.After World War I, some black residents of Detroit moved into a then rural and vacant area near the intersection of Wyoming and Eight Mile. In 1940, a developer sought to build homes for middle income whites in a nearby area. However, the Federal Housing Administration's policies of that era precluded their approving loans in racially mixed areas. To secure FHA approval, this developer put up a wall six feet high, one foot in width and one-half mile in length to clearly demark the white and black areas. His wall led FHA to approve loans for his project

College Park

This neighborhood is 95% Black, 24% in Poverty, median income is $16,000, Home Cost $70,000 and 54% percent of mothers are single. This area is bounded with,West Michnols, Southfield freeway, 7 mile, and Greenfield road. This neighborhood has Renaissance High School(smartest school in Detroit),Detroit Mercy Campus,and Detroit Medical Center.

Heidelberg Project

This neighborhood is 95% Black, median income of $10,000,32% in poverty,and mothers are 65% single. Homes cost only $ 20,000. This area is found near Mack ave and Mt Elliot st and Ellery st.

Trumbull Ave

Another area rich with gilded age ruins can be found on Trumbull Avenue starting north of Grand River Avenue. This Trumbull Avenue manse was converted into a multiple resident structure which can be seen by the addition in the rear and the add-on porch on the right.A decaying balconys overlooks the once elegant 1890's Trumbull Avenue.The terra cotta brick and limestone mansions that line both sides of Trumbull Avenue.

Fishkorn

Rivertown

Stillness reigns over the brick paved streets of Rivertown.In the distance the terra cotta walls of the former Parke Davis facility catch the early morning sunlight.Once slated as the site for Detroit's casinos, Rivertown with its many 19th Century buildings was eventually left out in an immense shell game played between speculators and the city. Today Rivertown sits largely vacant awaiting an uncertain future. Weeds cover the sand volley ball courts of the failed At water Beach Club. On land being acquired for the future construction of three riverfront casinos, the beach club along with the aged Globe Trading Building to the left are two of the many structures to be demolished. Franklin Street is part of a formerly hip area of Detroit known as Rivertown. During the seventies and eighties a number of clubs and night spots sprung up in this area of old warehouses and small businesses along the river just east of downtown. Over the years the city of Detroit made fitful attempts to develop the Rivertown area including a string of parks and marinas. Yet, somehow, the fire never caught and the area remained an area of interesting haunts and clubs interspersed among a wilderness of vacant land and quiet businesses.It came as a surprise when Rivertown was suddenly selected as the future home of Detroit's permanent casinos. By isolating the casinos from the old downtown, it was felt one of the original arguments for casinos, that they would be used to revive the old downtown and spur the growth of peripheral business, was being abandoned. An area of broken dreams and now big hopes, the casino land area of Rivertown has the feel of a schoolhouse in June after the students have left. The remaining businesses are winding down or closing. Others have long ago failed and never reopened.

Briggs

Conditions in Detroit a city used to epitomize the apocalyptic meanings that social commentators have read into the emergence of inner cities (Chafets, 1990; Herron, 1993)--allow the implications of these two predicaments to be both displayed and revised. For all of the routinized scenes that are drawn from this city to illustrate the extreme effects of deindustrialization, Detroit also provides a glimpse of the emergent social forms still grasped only clumsily in the rhetoric of social scientists. The physical nature of slums, here, is being reconfigured. The key problem is no longer overcrowding with its correlates of ill health and rampantly spread diseases. Rather, those who remain living in the deteriorating housing stock in the blighted zones of this city are threatened primarily by a collapsing infrastructure that can no longer support its extension over residential areas that have lost more than a million people in the last forty years. When I began fieldwork in the Briggs neighborhood, the most striking aspect of this area was the vast expanse of green fields that dominated the landscape. On some blocks, only one or two houses remain standing, and there are no blocks that retain all of their structures. In this neighborhood of 0.6 square miles there are more than 450 vacant, grass-covered lots. On summer days, the loudest sounds are from crickets, and pheasants reside in the tall grass.Briggs is one of many Detroit neighborhoods where fields now outnumber houses. The city's population peaked in 1952 at just under 2 million people. This apex was hardly evident at that moment, as city planners were still imagining and designing an infrastructure for a projected population of around 3 million people. Who could have predicted the severe hemorrhaging of people that was soon to follow? Between 1950 and 1990, Detroit's white population declined by 1.3 million people; today, approximately 1 million people still reside in this city, which continues to loose residents to the suburbs. As a result, the city is pockmarked with huge empty spaces that officials are dubious about ever filling with residents again (see figure 1). This unusual situation has forced a search for equally unique solutions.Detroit, these collapsing central zones reveal disparate and highly nuanced cultural conditions. This essay provides a glimpse of the inner city in Detroit a zone that in many ways epitomizes the startling effects of deindustrialization in midwestern and northeastern cities. With its stretches of green fields where hundreds of houses once stood, the Briggs neighborhood, an area within a mile from the city's downtown, is hardly unique as an inner city. However, the residents of this zone where I did fieldwork from July 1992 through February 1994 make an uneasy match with characteristic depictions of the "urban underclass."In Briggs, people joked about bringing in cows to graze or running horses in the meadows. Such an arrangement, they laughed, maybe it would stop all of the drug dealing in the area. this area was home to approximately 24,000 people dwelling in 6,000 housing units. Today, less than 3,000 people live in this inner city zone; only about 1,200 housing units remain

Briggs one of the poorest sections of Detroit’s underpopulated center, the Briggs neighborhood north of Tiger Stadium. Because Briggs is mostly white, Hartigan avoids the awkward old "truisms" of race which rely on an imagined black ghetto, and instead suggests lively, original ways of thinking about how class intersects with preoccupations about race.

Grandale

Lafayette Park

LaSalle Gardens

Fitzgerald park

McDougall-Hunt

Bagley

The Bagley community is an area in Northwest Detroit whose boundaries are West Outer Drive to the north, Livernois Avenue to the east, West McNichols (Six Mile Road) to the south, and Wyoming Avenue to the west. The community's name is likely derived from Bagley Elementary School, which is the lone public school within the community. This community is situated just west of the Palmer Woods/Sherwood Forest/University District areas of Detroit.

It is a mostly African-American community of tidy, 1930's era four-square brick homes and has thriving businesses along Livernois, Wyoming, Seven Mile Road and West McNichols Road.

Goldberg

Elmwood Park

Regent Park

Martin Park

Michigan-Martin

Morningside

Forest Park

Milwaukee Junction

Mohican Regent

Eliza Howell

Alden Park

Weatherby

Castle Rouge

Belmont

Russell Woods

West Side Industrial

Grandmont-Rosedale

Van Steuban

Conner Creek

Hubbard-Richard

Carbon Works

Ravendale

Springwells

LaSalle College Park

Millenium Village

Virginia Park

Southwest Detroit

Pulaski

Boston Edison

Detroit's Boston-Edison District is one of the earliest suburbs in Detroit. It is comprised of many large, single-residence homes that were built between 1900 and 1925. When the Henry Ford Hospital was built in 1915, numerous physicians built homes in the district. Some notable occupants of the Boston-Edison District were Clarence Monroe Burton, donor of the Burton Historical Collection at the Detroit Public Library, Rabbi Leo Franklin, organizer of the United Jewish Charities, Henry Ford, Michigan Supreme Court Justice Joseph Moynihan and Ford Motor Company secretary and treasurer James Couzins. This community is 83% Black, median income of $18,000,11% in poverty, and 21% of mothers are single, homes cost $148,000.

Joseph Barry Subdivision

This area is 72% Black, median income of $30,000,17% in poverty,homes cost $450,000. This is bounded by Fiske, East Jefferson, Parkview,and Detroit River. These homes are beautiful mansions.

Greensbriar

East Village

Jefferson Village

Islandview

State Fair Grounds

Kranz Woods

West Village

Aviation Sub Park

Chandler Park

Blackstone Park

Marina District

Five Points

Parkland

Jefferson-Chalmers

Herman Gardens

Oakman Blvd

Jefferies

Palmer Park

Grixdale

Boynton

Oakwood Heights

Southside 8 mile

Solid bungalow style houses line the serene tree-lined streets south of 8 Mile in Detroit and do little to belive the racial contrast of their owners to those of similar houses just on the other side of 8 Mile(Hazel Park, Warren, and East Pointe).Toward the notheast 8 mile area houses are in great shape, but the more you go west down 8 mile it resembles other parts of Detroit with alot of urban decay.When Detroit's first Afro American mayor made his inaugural speech in the high crime year of 1974 he announced, "To all those pushers, to all rip-off artists, to all muggers: It's time to leave Detroit; hit Eight Mile Road! And I don't give a damn if they are black or white, or if they wear Superfly suits or blue windows with silver badges. Hit the road!"hat was meant to be an anti-criminal declaration somehow became widely misinterpreted as a message to Euro Americans, already in full panic flight, that he was driving Detroit criminal elements into their new neighborhoods.Today Detroit has a population that is 85% Afro American while many of the suburbs north of 8 Mile are almost entirely Euro American, particularly along the borders of Hazel Park, Warren, and East Pointe. The later community even went so as to change its name from East Detroit aka Eastpointe, to underline its separation from the mother city.

8 mile

7 mile rd

7 mile road area is located approximately 7 miles North of the Detroit River measuring from the beginning of Wooward Avenue. 7 mile has suffered from the white flight and urban decay. 7 mile is one of the most dangerous parts of Detroit. Known for drug dealing and gang violence with gangs like the Bloods, Crips, Zone 8 (Z8ne), and many other small gangs like K N B that represent their area. 7 mile runs from Kelly rd to Inkster rd. The most famous rapper in Detroit Blade Icewood was killed on West 7 mile with a AK-47. 7 mile is also where most D12 members were raised. Alot of youngsters on 7 mile also have a heated rivalry with Brightmoor, 6 mile and 8 mile. In Detroit there are not alot of gangs like Cali and Chicago there are alot of neighborhood rivalries that some times result in gang like activities. Neighborhood gangs out number gangs like bloods and crips in Detroit. You are more often to get in fights in Detroit over what street you from then what gang you from. 7 mile in the Hoover st area has a small portions of Asians (mainly Mong).But is still almost all African American.

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6 mile(McNichols rd)

6 Mile is not a road it is really McNichols rd which stretches to the East and Westside of Detroit. Other places considered 6 mile is Conner st and Gunston st. 6 mile resembles 7 mile as they are both dangerous with numerous of gangs and drugs. 6 mile is the home of the Eastside Chedda Boyz and other Detroit rappers.

File:DSC00437-det.JPG Houses like this are found all over Detroit.

5 mile(Fenkell st)

Harper Ave

Harper Ave is a Southeastern part of Detroit with many abandoned houses, vancant lots and buildings.This area has many gangs and is mostly all African American its located north of the Edsel Ford Fwy. This area is controlled by Gangs and Drugs and is a one of the most dangerous areas in Detroit.A couple Streets you might see is Chalmers st, Burns st, and Fischer st. Aside from the crime it also has loving families and great neighbors. Detroit is working to clean it up and it is becoming a better neighborhood.

Gratiot Ave

Riding down Gratiot you go through the most dangerous eastside neighborhoods. M-3 is a north-south state highway in the U.S. state of Michigan in the Detroit metropolitan area. For most of its length, M-3 is known as Gratiot Avenue.

Gratiot is one of five major avenues (along with Woodward, Michigan, Grand River, and Jefferson) planned by judge Augustus Woodward in 1805 that extend from downtown Detroit in differing directions. Gratiot runs northeast from downtown and extends into Macomb County.

Before 2001, the southern terminus of M-3 was at exit 47A (Clark Avenue) of I-75 in the southwest side of Detroit, linking to the Ambassador Bridge, providing an international connection to Ontario's King's Highway 3. Due to exchanges between the Michigan Department of Transportation and the city of Detroit, M-3 was broken into discontinuous segments, and the former Fort Street portion of M-3 was transferred to an extended M-85. Now M-3 extends from Gratiot Avene to Randolph Street south to end at the intersection with Jefferson Avenue in downtown Detroit. The northern terminus is at exit 243 of Interstate 94 in Chesterfield Township about two miles (3.2 km) west of New Baltimore. (M-29 connects to the junction from the east.)

The total length of the route is approximately 29 miles (46 km).

The road passes through Detroit into the suburbs. For much of the way it runs more or less parallel with M-97 to the north and with Interstate 94 to the south.

Jefferson ave

Mack Ave

Mack Ave is a Southeastern part of Detroit it has been hit with urban decay and devils night the kind you see on Harper Ave and Brush Park.Vacant homes and lots crowd the neighborhoods.This area has had problems with controlling illegal drugs and gang violence.The Streets are similar to Harper ave's. The city is planning to build new houses where the empty lots now sit. This area is also where Eminem and his 8 mile crew taped parts of the movie 8 mile.

File:DSC00440.JPG This is a vacant lot. Once thier were homes here.

Warren Ave

John R st

The street that divides Highland Park and Detroit. And East and West 7 mile rd.

Van Dyke st

Van Dyke is part of the Eastside of Detroit where it runs from east Jefferson to the Northern suburbs of Michigan. On Van Dyke there is Kettering High School considered by many as the most dangerous and low educated schools in Detroit. This school is known for gang violence. Van Dyke has a gang known as the Van Dyke Boyz known for jumping people. Like most Detroit gangs they represent thier neighborhood.

Conner st

Hoover st

Kelly rd

Hayes st

Schoenherr st

State Fair st

Tacoma st

Dexter Ave

Dexter Ave, this area is very diverse with light and dark skinned African Americans. Usually African Americans mixed with another race such as in Hispanics. They have a gang called the Dexter Boyz who have been having a gang war with the Linwood Boyz for decades. This rivalry has turned violent and very dangerous.

Linwood st

12th st

Woodrow Wilson st(Woodrow)

Joy rd

Joy rd is where alot of robberies occur and gang activity. Made famous for the Murder Mac aka McDonalds because alot of killings and crimes occur there.

West Chicago st

Greenfield rd

Livernois Ave

Plymouth rd(P-Rock)

This areas has had many projects to build new houses because most of them have became "Crack Houses" this area has alot of people below the poverty line. And has alot of shootings. But it is becoming a better and more beautiful place.

Housing Projects

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