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In total Baltimore recorded 344 homicides in 2015, at that time a number second only to the 353 homicides recorded in 1993 when the population was 100,000 higher. [21] At the time this was the highest murder rate on a per capita basis ever recorded. [22] In the years that followed Baltimore continued to see an increase in murders and violent ...
Baltimore Street is the north-south dividing line for the U.S. Postal Service. [1] It is not uncommon for locals to divide the city simply by East or West Baltimore, using Charles Street or I-83 as a dividing line. [citation needed] The following is a list of major neighborhoods in Baltimore, organized by broad geographical location in the city:
Hampden is a neighborhood located in northern Baltimore, Maryland, United States.Roughly triangular in shape, it is bounded to the east by the neighborhood Wyman Park, to the north by Roland Park at 40th and 41st Street, to the west by the Jones Falls Expressway, and to the south by the neighborhood Remington.
Alamy There are areas to avoid in Baltimore that are dangerous, gritty and hardcore, where a leisurely nighttime stroll is not recommended. On the other hand, there are also neighborhoods with ...
Baltimore reported 223 homicides in 2010. The number of all violent crimes for the city has declined from 21,799 in 1993 to 9,316 in 2010. Even with stark population decline taken into account—Baltimore went from 732,968 residents in 1993 to 620,961 in 2010—the drop in violent crime was significant, falling from 3.0 incidents per 100 residents to 1.6 incidents per 100 residents.
The area was historically segregated, and largely occupied by European Americans, but transitioned during the early 1950s to become a predominantly African American area. [2] [3] Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Baltimore. One of the most significant buildings remaining the early development of Mosher is the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.
At the turn of the 20th century, Upton was one of the most affluent African American neighborhoods in the United States. The Pennsylvania Avenue commuter rail station on the Baltimore and Potomac Rail Road was built in 1884. By the 1920s, Upton was home to most educated African-American property owners in Baltimore.
Otterbein is a small neighborhood of historic rowhouses in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Otterbein is immediately southwest of, and in close walking distance to, the Inner Harbor . The neighborhood is very compact, entirely located between Hanover Street and Sharp Street, and between Barre Street and Henrietta Street.