Capital of Black America? (live, cost, compared, places)

[908Boi]

Originally Posted by BajanYankee

Black professionals by neighborhood.

Good list, basically the urban educated black areas are Harlem, NW Brooklyn, NW by Howard University in DC and Midtown Atlanta

[BajanYankee]

Originally Posted by MDAllstar

I don't think it has anything to do with the grid, I think its disinvestment. You lived in DC, you know all those abandoned homes and vacant store fronts all over Ward 7 and Ward 8. Now, they are building highrises in those areas so things are changing.

So DC is the only city in America to have suffered from disinvestment? What about Newark, Baltimore, Philadelphia, the Bronx, etc?

[BajanYankee]

Originally Posted by 908Boi

Good list, basically the urban educated black areas are Harlem, NW Brooklyn, NW by Howard University in DC and Midtown Atlanta

Go back and review the list. It's more like Brooklyn, Harlem and parts of South Side Chicago.

[908Boi]

Originally Posted by BajanYankee

Go back and review the list. It's more like Brooklyn, Harlem and parts of South Side Chicago.

20001 isn’t in DC?

[MDAllstar]

Originally Posted by BajanYankee

So DC is the only city in America to have suffered from disinvestment? What about Newark, Baltimore, Philadelphia, the Bronx, etc?

Come on now, lets not act like Philadelphia doesn't have neighborhoods with low walk scores. Have you been to Tioga-Nicetown in Philly or Berea in Baltimore?

[BajanYankee]

Originally Posted by MDAllstar

Come on now, lets not act like Philadelphia doesn't have neighborhoods with low walk scores. Have you been to Tioga-Nicetown in Philly or Berea in Baltimore?

Did you not read my earlier posts? I said that disinvestment can't explain away the low walk scores of some EOTR neighborhoods when even Nicetown has an 80+ walk score. Anacostia is Shangri-La compared to Nicetown.

[stanley-88888888]

Originally Posted by ckhthankgod

With NYC, you have to view it by borough. So, it is more like Central/Eastern Brooklyn, SE Queens, NE/S Bronx, (parts of) Harlem/Uptown in Manhattan and even Northern/NE Staten Island.

but if we cherry pick, we could say that sections like little-haiti would have a better black experience ?

i agree n.y.c. doesnt belong in this poll.

[stanley-88888888]

Originally Posted by stanley-88888888

no miami, boston, montréal options shows that this poll is only about african-american affluence and not about being black in general (including west-indians, cap-verdeans, african-americans, afro-latinés, afro-brazilians, ...).

Originally Posted by stanley-88888888

^ since this is a popularity poll, i actually find it suspicious that atlanta only has slightly more than half the votes. i expected it to be a landslide; however, most of the 100+ pages have thoughtful well evidenced counter-arguments.

also ironic, the metro with the largest black population has the fewest votes.

also surprised l.a. and oakland are missing based on popularity.

[MDAllstar]

Originally Posted by BajanYankee

Did you not read my earlier posts? I said that disinvestment can't explain away the low walk scores of some EOTR neighborhoods when even Nicetown has an 80+ walk score. Anacostia is Shangri-La compared to Nicetown.

Nicetown has a 77 walkscore. Anacostia has a 62. It would be interesting to see what they are counting for Nicetown. It’s awful, no place to sit down and eat or anything.

[stanley-88888888]

Originally Posted by Mutiny77

(and we're talking about U.S. cities here so no Montreal)

i'm being obtuse but thread title is Capital of Black America? so including all of america honorable mentions to:
kingston
saïnt dominigue
port-au-prince
havana
panama city
rio de janeiro
caracas