Quote Originally Posted by Bham1982 View Post
8 Mile Rd. was "solidly middle class, among the safest and majority white" in the last few decades? I seriously doubt it.

There were some remaining elderly whites along E. 8 Mile until recently, but certainly not the majority, and that corridor hasn't been middle class or super safe since forever. It's been horrible for 40 years.

Back in the 1980s, yes. In fact, this was a popular area for city workers.

The demogrphics didn't really start for the worse in NE Detroit [[roughly north of 7 mile, east of Van Dyke, eaat of Kelly and South of 8 Mile) until the drug war got out of hand during the late 80s/early 90s and especially after the lifting of the residency requirement.

The fact that the area was so well served at the time by commercial establishments [[healthy Eastland Center, Bel Air, Kroger, etc.) highlights this.