Bodymore Murdaland

I was driving around East Baltimore recently and passed by one of those old benches that reads, "Baltimore: The Greatest City in America." I had to shake my head. The paint was peeling, most of the slats were missing, and it was surrounded by urban decay. You forget how bad it is when you haven't been back in a while: blocks upon blocks of dilapidated, boarded-up, crumbling buildings. The focus of the Great Recession was all about Detroit, but Baltimore is not much further down on the list of cities hemorrhaging people. It's sad. Here in Boston, you read about parking spots in Back Bay going for half-a-million and millennials renting $1600 micro-apartments. Even in the worst neighborhoods in Boston, abandoned buildings are an anomaly. Makes you wonder, why not here in Baltimore? The answer is complex and probably way over my head, but you have to think that it starts with the basics, like public safety. Baltimore had over 1100 murders over the past 4 years. If you stand on one of these 25 street corners, you're at ground zero. So until that changes, nothing else will. The city will keep stenciling slogans on benches: Charm City, The City That Reads. (Also available in white text for darker colors... check out my portfolio.)

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