Barclay, Baltimore

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Coordinates: 39°18′54″N 76°36′47″W / 39.315°N 76.613°W / 39.315; -76.613 The Barclay neighborhood, as defined by the Baltimore City Planning Department, is bounded by North Avenue, Greenmount Avenue, Saint Paul and 25th Streets. The neighborhood lies north of Greenmount West, south of Charles Village, west of East Baltimore Midway, and east of Charles North. The district boundary between the Northern and Eastern police districts of Baltimore, Maryland runs through the community, cutting it roughly in half.

Though the area's houses, primarily late Victorian three story brownstones, were clearly built for the middle-class, it has, especially in the last generation, experienced severe economic decline, housing abandonment, crime and gang problems. Residents are primarily lower income African Americans. The area experienced significant gang violence between the local Young Gorilla Family gang and other gangs in 2006 and 2007.^[1] The gang violence issue appears to have settled down as the number of murders has dropped from ten in 2007 to one each year in 2008 and 2009.

The area is scheduled to undergo significant redevelopment as the Baltimore City Housing Department has granted development rights for over one hundred units of city owned property to Telesis Corporation. The community plan calls for market rate, subsidized, rental, and home ownership housing. Construction is scheduled to start in the spring of 2010. The western end of the neighborhood has also seen smaller scale development with two historic buildings converted into about eighty apartments in 2009.

References

↑ "Gang problem hemorrhaging". , The Baltimore Sun (April 15th, 2007)

External links

Homicide locations map from the Baltimore Sun
Description of the Barclay/Midway/Old Goucher Project
North District Maps, Baltimore City Neighborhoods Portal

v t e Neighborhoods in Baltimore, Maryland

Northwest	Arlington Ashburton Cheswolde Fallstaff Forest Park Glen Howard Park Heights Pimlico Reisterstown Station Television Hill

North	Abell Barclay Bellona-Gittings Better Waverly Cameron Charles Village Cedarcroft Chinquapin Park-Belvedere Cylburn Edgecomb Evergreen Govans Guilford Hampden Harwood Homeland Homewood Keswick Lake Evesham Lake Walker Loyola-Notre Dame Little Korea Town Medfield Mount Washington Oakenshawe Pen Lucy Poplar Hill Radnor-Winston Remington Roland Park Sabina Mattefeldt Tuscany-Canterbury Village of Cross Keys Waverly Woodberry Wyman Park Wyndhurst

Northeast	Belair-Edison Cedonia Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello Ednor Gardens-Lakeside Frankford Gardenville Hamilton Hillen Lauraville Loch Raven Mayfield Mid-Govans Northwood Ramblewood Stonewood-Pentwood-Winston Wilson Park Woodbourne Heights

West	Bridgeview/Greenlawn Coppin Heights Edmondson Franklin Square Harlem Park Lexington Mondawmin Mosher Poppleton Rosemont Sandtown - Winchester Upton Walbrook Windsor Hills

Central	Barre Circle Bolton Hill Charles Center Downtown Inner Harbor Madison Park Mount Vernon Otterbein Reservoir Hill Ridgely's Delight Seton Hill Station North Westside

East	Barclay Berea Broadway East Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello East Baltimore Midway Ellwood Park Four By Four Greenmount West Madison-Eastend McElderry Park Middle East Oldtown-Latrobe Oliver Orangeville

Southwest	Beechfield Carrollton Ridge Dickeyville Franklintown Gwynn's Falls Hollins Market Irvington Morrell Park Pigtown Sowebo Ten Hills Union Square Violetville Wakefield Washington Village Yale Heights

South	Brooklyn Cherry Hill Curtis Bay Fairfield Federal Hill Harborview Lakeland Locust Point Mount Winans Pratt Monroe South Baltimore Wagner's Point Westport

Southeast	Bayview Brewer's Hill Butchers Hill Canton Fell's Point Graceland Park Greektown Harbor East Highlandtown Jonestown Joseph Lee Kresson Linwood Little Italy Patterson Park St Helena Upper Fells Point Washington Hill

Public housing	Allendale Armistead Gardens Bel Park Towers Claremont Douglass Homes Ellerslie Homes Flaghouse Homes Govans Manor Homes Heritage Crossing Johnston Square Lafayette Court Latrobe Homes Mason Homes Lakeview Towers McCulloh Homes O'Donnell Heights Perkins Homes Pleasent View Gardens Poe Homes Primrose Place Somerset Courts

Parks	Clifton Park Cylburn Arboretum Druid Hill Park Gwynns Falls Park Leakin Park Patterson Park Sherwood Gardens Wyman Park

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Barclay, Baltimore

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