Talk:Belair-Edison, Baltimore
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The description of Belair-Edison is an unfairly written, incorrect view of this neighborhood. The first mistake is that Belair-Edison does not border along Harford Road. Secondly, the article reads like there are mostly poor African-Americans who live in Belair-Edison. Please know that this neighborhood, while predominantly African-American, is stable with a 75% homeownership rate with house values steadily climbing. My issue with this article is that is does not reflect the entire neighborhood. There is a 300-acre park that runs throughout the neighborhood. The neighbors get together and do social building activities with each other to include, block projects, "pick your neighbor" parties, movies in the park and ice cream socials. There is a golf course inside of the neighborhood. This neighborhood houses one of the City's nine Main Street programs, based in the principles of the Main Street model from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It is a premiere Healthy Neighborhoods destinations (one of ten programs throughout the City), and employs an asset based approach to community revitalization. The author fails to mention, that when foreclosure rates in the entire City of Baltimore were up in 2005, they were down in Belair-Edison.
I just really feel that the article is a narrow-minded view of this very stable neighborhood. This betrayal is unfair to the nearly 18,000 residents who really have invested their time, energy, and resources to keep this area an anchor in Northeast Baltimore. Please understand that everyone in this neighborhood is NOT poor and every kid is NOT a gang banger or drug dealer. The fact that the author uses "urban decay" as it relates to Belair-Edison, lets me know that this person is not that familiar with Baltimore and should not be the voice to define Belair-Edison. As a courtesy for those who live in Belair-Edison and take pride in it, I WILL re-write this article to better define this wonderful asset building neighborhood.
--Jrichardson3412 13:06, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
The description of Belair-Edison is provided courtesy of not only a long time former resident but of many other long time former residents who have also since relocated. Hardly anyone that live in Belair-Edison in the 1940s through the 1990s still resides there as former Mayor Schmoke's grand ideas to tear down the high rise projects and attempt to integrate poor, low income families into a stable middle class neighborhoods failed miserably. Comparing Belair-Edison so say, Hamilton, is a joke. Calling Herring Run a 300 acre park is mighty kind as the 300 acre park probably has more crime in a given month than most states do in a year. Same thing for the golf course, sounds great, but watch your clubs and watch for the locals walking through whenever they feel like it. Not exactly Pebble Beach.
As for the reason foreclosures were down in Belair-Edison, well it doesn't take a real estate guru to figure it out. The ownership turnover rate was low and Belair-Edison residents didn't find themselves paying 550k for a house in Canton that a year later could hardly be sold for 400k.
If you don't think this neighborhood is a sign of urban decay, take a trip down to Belair and Erdman after school has let out. Or walk down Pelham Ave near the once proud Catholic school that is no longer in existence. Take a stroll through Mannasota where mom and pop shops have been replaced with stores resembling Greenmount Ave. To say the author is unfamiliar with the area is almost as off base as the discussion initiated above.
Perhaps in the reply the author will address the Baltimore Sun story posted in the links section on the article page regarding this great neighborhood.
Or how about this murder, which ironically enough, happened this morning? http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/crime/bal-md.me.ci.slay20jul20,0,5355789.story
Or how about the 7 June 2007 murder of Demetrius Burnette on Bonview Ave?
Or how about the 9 May 2007 murder on Raymonn Ave?
Shall I continue? Let's face it, the city will never change with the current leadership. Violent crime and murder is out of control for a city of this size, hell we would love to have New Yorks murder/violent crime rate and many people from Baltimore don't go there for fear of crime!
--AirmanJeff 17:54, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Double Homicide in broad daylight
Wow, what a great place! Get in on it!
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/crime/bal-te.md.belair22sep22,0,6167523.story?coll=bal_tab01_layout —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.251.133.86 (talk) 15:44, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] History
First of the section reads like some one opinion, and is based on an artile in the The Sun, listed in the external links, that really has not much to do with what is being said in the artile. The section tries to apply issues in the article to a hardly related court case in regards to public housing in Baltimore. Either way the toen in the section needs to be reworked to less of a op-ed and more plus better sitations should be included. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 04:00, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
First "off" you sound like a product of the local holding facility err I mean school, Brehm's Lane.
There is nothing wrong with the "tone" unless you have a problem with the truth.
--AirmanJeff 17:54, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Another fatal shooting in the 3300 blk of Elmora Ave on November 2....
such a great place to live!
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/crime/bal-md.blotter15nov15,0,4509603.story
--AirmanJeff 21:53, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Just an update folks, its been a while
Three murders during the week of September 26, 2007 http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=14582e
December 12, 2007, another two murders http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=13052
Let's make 2008 GREAT!
January 4, 2008 - murder across from Little Flower, 2800 block of Kentucky Ave.
January 17, 2008, 19 year old murdered, 3500 block of Cliftmont Ave.
January 20th, 2008, domestic murder, 2700 block of Pelham Ave.
March 23, 2008, 21 year old murdered, 3700 block of Ravenwood Ave.
May 4, 2008 - another murder, 3200 block of Belair Rd, Northeast district now leads the city in murders for 2008.
--AirmanJeff 10:26, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
