Baltimore

=====West Baltimore=====
West Baltimore is west of downtown and the [[Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (Baltimore)|Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard]] and is bounded by Gwynns Falls Parkway, [[Fremont Avenue]], and [[Baltimore Street|West Baltimore Street]]. The [[Old West Baltimore Historic District]] includes the neighborhoods of [[Harlem Park]], [[Sandtown-Winchester]], [[Druid Heights]], [[Madison Park, Baltimore|Madison Park]], and [[Upton, Baltimore|Upton]].<ref name=nps /><ref>{{citation|publisher=National Register of Historic Places|title=Registration form: Old West Baltimore Historic District|date=November 9, 2004|website=mht.maryland.gov|url=https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-1390.pdf|access-date=May 15, 2016}}</ref> Originally a predominantly German neighborhood, by the last half of the 19th century, Old West Baltimore was home to a substantial section of the city's Black population.<ref name=nps/>

It became the largest neighborhood for the city's Black community and its cultural, political, and economic center.<ref name=nps>{{citation|title=Baltimore City Heritage Area: Management Action Plan |author=HRG Consultants |author2=AB Associates |date=Sep 2001|website=National Park Service |url=https://www.nps.gov/balt/learn/management/upload/Section-I-Background.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428114908/https://www.nps.gov/balt/learn/management/upload/Section-I-Background.pdf |archive-date=April 28, 2016 |access-date=May 15, 2016}}</ref> [[Coppin State University]], [[Mondawmin Mall]], and [[Edmondson, Baltimore|Edmondson Village]] are located in this district. The area's crime problems have provided subject material for television series, such as ''[[The Wire]]''.<ref>{{citation|title=Part 3 Unhealthy Baltimore: Distrust in the hospital room|author=Capital News Service|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|date=May 3, 2016|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/freddie-gray/bs-md-ci-unrest-anniversary-20160427-story.html|access-date=May 15, 2016}}</ref> Local organizations, such as the Sandtown Habitat for Humanity and the Upton Planning Committee, have been steadily transforming parts of formerly blighted areas of West Baltimore into clean, safe communities.<ref>{{citation|last=Wheeler|first=Timothy B|title=Habitat group rehabs 300th home in Sandtown|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|date=December 11, 2011|url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-12-11/news/bs-md-habitat-20111211_1_sandtown-habitat-habitat-group-new-song-community-church|access-date=May 15, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://livebaltimore.com/neighborhoods/upton/|title=Upton|publisher=Live in Baltimore|website=LiveBaltimore.com|date=n.d.|access-date=May 15, 2016}}</ref>