I bet that used to be a nice neighborhood once... I wonder what changed.
Like many inner cities, the Whites (or White ethnics) were displaced by Blacks in those neighborhoods in the 1950s and afterwards, only for the latter (when the crime and neglect by the city became too much) to not even be able to sell the homes, they just moved out and left. You don’t want to be the last living soul on the block and make yourself a target. It’s criminal what’s happened in these places. A lot of places would kill for this historic building stock, but because of its location, no one will touch it.
Tony Soprano tells you What.