In your opinion whats the WORST Part of Town, including Highland Park.

**dtowncitylover** · September-25-09, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by Dan Ryan

I have to admit the D was teetering back in the early 70s but we had cops and a commisioner who still cared. When Coleman was elected the law and order was put aside abit and then it slid real fast. I know my folks and a lot of other people took their tax dollars and ran to pay them to another municipality that cared about the taxpayer. Coleman whined about human flight from the D and thought casino gambling could save the Paris of the Midwest. Colemans dead and so is the city but it has a couple of casinos that many of us who ran from the D would rather drive 100 mis away from instead of to. Did these casinos save Detroit? Nuke this place already...and make it a true tourist attraction...

Sir, your part of the problem. Your in the same boat as the many of the city council members, Kwame Kilpatrick, and all the criminals of Detroit. Quit your complaining and do something about it. I hate when white suburbanites bring up Coleman, because then I get to say, "what did you do about it?" NOTHING! Bitching never gets you anywhere.

**Danny** · September-25-09, 01:11 PM

In Detroit ALL the ghettohoods are bad! You can find a DEAD [[C)KRAK HEAD selling drugs at some house or at the street corner. There are lots of vacant buildings, and abandon eyesores and forclosed homes ready for stripping. Gangs, rapists loomed the streets; even brothers killing brothers over simular animosities.

The the suburbs, the fewer streets that are bad is the area contianing low-income folks [[that is the boondocks).

Please be well aware that if you al tried to challenge my codespeak. I will rebute your comments.

**EastsideAl** · September-25-09, 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by dtowncitylover

Sir, your part of the problem. Your in the same boat as the many of the city council members, Kwame Kilpatrick, and all the criminals of Detroit. Quit your complaining and do something about it. I hate when white suburbanites bring up Coleman, because then I get to say, "what did you do about it?" NOTHING! Bitching never gets you anywhere.

Part of the problem back then was that the choice was between Coleman and that "commissioner who still cared" John Nichols, who was highly disliked by the half of the citizens whose lives he very clearly didn't give a damn about. The sole issue quickly became race, and the city's and the area's politics has never recovered.

**PCE** · September-25-09, 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by 1KielsonDrive

Downtown Birmingham. Death by snot.

Too funny!

**jackie5275** · September-25-09, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by Bearinabox

I don't think Warrendale belongs on the list.

Not yet, but it will in a couple of years. They've had notable decline in the past 2 yrs. with nothing improving.

**JStone** · September-25-09, 03:52 PM

Easily 10th and Leverette. My cousin lives over there and he tells me it's a war zone. My Uncle refuses to even visit him. Fo sho.

**REL** · September-25-09, 04:56 PM

Monica Conyer's block.

**mcsdetroitfriend** · September-25-09, 06:15 PM

Based on my limited knowledge of the city as a whole you can beat me down for this but

The area where Harpos Concert Theatre/The I-Rock is on Harper Ave is terrible. The fact these institutions have to hire huge dudes with semi-automatic weapons and a 'white power' attitude is annoying and sad. The freeway cross walks are kind of the problem. Some guy got shot in line at Harpos and the guy who did it just crossed the freeway and no one ever found him.

That's just from my first hand experience. As burned out as a lot of the places are, and the homeless running around, I've walked around freely during the day and had no problems. Common sense should prevail though, stay inside during the night, or go in groups.

**softailrider** · September-25-09, 07:39 PM

Originally Posted by EastsideAl

Part of the problem back then was that the choice was between Coleman and that "commissioner who still cared" John Nichols, who was highly disliked by the half of the citizens whose lives he very clearly didn't give a damn about. The sole issue quickly became race, and the city's and the area's politics has never recovered.

If Nichols would have won that first election aganist CAY, the city may be a very diffeent place today.

**EastsideAl** · September-26-09, 12:45 AM

Originally Posted by softailrider

If Nichols would have won that first election aganist CAY, the city may be a very diffeent place today.

Yes, we most likely would have had 1967 all over again, or maybe worse.

**reddog289** · September-26-09, 01:07 AM

Can't give a good enuff answer and I ain't gonna drive around looking for it.

Blarf · September-26-09, 02:56 AM

I don't know what's considered "bad", but I always found Delray interesting, in a hillbilly backwoods kind of way.

**East Detroit** · September-26-09, 04:08 AM

West Bloomfield is the worst part of town.

Hold doors open for people and they shove past you and don't say thanks.

Look in their driveways and its as if they think they're living in Japan with no connection to Detroit.

**Zacha341** · September-26-09, 05:18 AM

Hmmmn, I am not a republican, but isn't it kind of weird to pull out the usual "Reagan" thing to point to why factories closed in Michigan a democratic strong-hold state? I think some other issues have played a role in the economic collapse here, clearly!

Originally Posted by Original63

Then if you stand at ground Zero we can rid ourselves of one more undesireable in the process...If you don't want to be here then leave... P.S. Ronald Reagan and the Republican agenda has closed our factories not Coleman Young.. Oh yeah I forgot

**skidway** · September-26-09, 11:44 AM

I would think that Chene St. is pretty much ground zero. Has been for quite a while.

**EastsideAl** · September-26-09, 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by Blarf

I don't know what's considered "bad", but I always found Delray interesting, in a hillbilly backwoods kind of way.

From deep in those Hungarian hills!

**Detroitej72** · September-26-09, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by Dan Ryan

I never stole anything from the city, Im not a suburanite, a suburb is somewhere near the city and Im as far away as I can be at this time. I was born and raised in the city and might have stayed but the handwriting was and still is spray painted on the walls all around the city. I guess I am a criminal if you say I am...

Your arrogant attitude about nuking the whole city and your thinly veiled racist remarks is what makes your opinion criminal.

**The Recycling Guy** · September-26-09, 02:00 PM

Campaigned all over the city. Had a gun pulled on me and staff in Delray. I live in the corridor, so my normal baseline neighborhood gives me a slightly unique perspective. Brightmoor is rough. Dexter Davison is tough. Saratoga neighborhood [[7 / hayes-ish) statistically is the most dangerous as far as violent crimes per capita.

Personally, the most dangerous area is royal oak around midnight on weekends when the tequila and jager shot gangs of drunken 23 year olds are staggering around thinking that they are superman. No reasoning with them apples.

**detroitbob66** · September-26-09, 04:10 PM

I have been in Detroit for years, and spent most of these years as a street dreamer and drug addict. I have seen the worst and best of Detroit. IN MY OPINION, the worst part of Detroit is the Lower East Side. The area running south of I-94 from Chene/East Grand Blvd all the way to Chalmers. I think that this is the most crime-ridden and abandoned area, but Brightmoore is burnt out the most, and another area worth mentioning is the Cass Corridor, but really onlly by Second by the NSO. This area is filled with drug addicts and the homeless, who make vaious tarps and couches their permanent home. Thanks.....out

**Russix** · September-26-09, 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by softailrider

I'd have to say Robinwood Street, between Woodward and John R. Can't really be described, needs to be seen in person.

Speaking of Robinwood...

http://www.emailforeclosures.com/sea...&idnum=1117487

$70 buys you something on this street. On google maps it looks like a house but who knows what it is today.

**Zacha341** · September-26-09, 07:12 PM

There are many bad areas in Detroit, with larger patches seeming to be on the east side which is the smaller part of the city anyway.... Brightmoor is particularly creepy with the slooping grades with burnt out homes and huge bodies of standing water when it rains alot. Ugh...

**concernedmetrodetroiter3** · September-26-09, 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by jt1

My opinion is that this type of thread has been done to death. Search the archives and you'll find 10 versions asking the same thing.

Since some of us don't have over 100 posts nor have been long time members, we bring up subjects that are a concern to us coming in as new members. Excuse me or any other new member for not reading the archives to ensure that we don't bring up a subject that you have already covered. If a new member brings up a subject that you feel has been "done to death" then DON'T READ IT. Move on and let those of us that are interested partake.

**DanTheMan** · September-26-09, 09:49 PM

West of Linwood, east of Livernois, north of Grand River, south of Davison

DetroitDad · September-26-09, 10:03 PM

I don't mind rehashing topics.

I'm thinking Inkster is up there. You have many problems associated with Detroit, only in a suburb, and the icing is that it is close to the airport. I visited a acquaintance out there once and there seemed to be a low flying plane with a defining roar every twenty minutes or so.

Down I-75 around Delray and River Rouge is pretty bad. Again, you have all the regular problems compounded with a horrible smell and pollution. There are actually inhabited neighborhoods next to these behemoth factories spewing black or bright yellow smoke into the air.

Highland Park has some really bad areas concerning blight. The brand new abandoned homes are really depressing. Countless other neighborhoods that are actually nice, yet seldom mentioned here, are being hit hard by the mortgage crisis and economy. You have really nice homes where you can tell people really care. In these areas nice homes with new roofs, clean siding, and beautiful gardens fill neighborhoods with these burned out hulking wrecks interspersed throughout them. You get the impression that the blight is some sort of cancer spreading to various neighborhoods and some suburbs.

Then you have the urban prairies and the people who choose to live on them. You have some little enclaves of homes or random homes that dot the landscape, with occasional abandoned homes or piles of garbage. There are some bizarre new homes in these areas [[weird designs or materials being used). There are also some who have set up urban gardens on vacant lots in these areas.

What has always amazed me is the abandoned mansions that dot the city, as well as the larger more grand abandoned buildings.

**MysticalHalf** · September-26-09, 10:21 PM

I was on Davison and Rosa Parks [[12th st) last night, Friday night, got stopped at the light and all of a sudden it sounded like a bunch of m-80s going off, the kid I was with was in the army, and served in Iraq, he said no way that was fireworks then said it was 6 shots from a AK-47 and 3 return fire shots from something small maybe a 9mm. overall I'm thinking a lot of you who posted were right about the Dexter/Davison/Linwood area. basically a damn war-zone.