Last night I was comparing and contrasting some 80's & early 90's images of The Bronx. It was amazing how they resembled Detroit in so many sad ways. 20 years later these same areas are in many cases unrecognizable. There are some locations that it doesn't even lend to a comparison, as when a street has been completely removed for a grocery store [[a huge improvement over trash strewn streets with shells of cars) but I have borrowed a few photos I found on the internet and taken google map images to compare.
Believe it or not, these three images are all the same corner...





There is hope! If The Bronx can be this improved over 20 years [[and it was hell on earth at one point) Detroit can do it too. There were images I couldn't get an exact location on that were an even starker contrast to these... Look up Charlotte St. in the Bronx.