Photos: Suspected serial arsonist accused of decimating Detroit neighborhood
House by house, the remains of an impoverished, blighted neighborhood near the Detroit Golf Course began to go up in smoke.
House by house, the remains of an impoverished, blighted neighborhood near the Detroit Golf Course began to go up in smoke.
Beginning next week, Second Avenue in the Cass Corridor and Midtown will become a two-way street, a sign of the incredible decline of the street since the 1930s.
The mood was somber as preservationists and parishioners sang a hymn, prayed, listened to somber horns and clutched candles.
The largely abandoned area is littered with trash, tires, furniture, rotting homes and discarded boats.
I arrived at the blaze on Woodward near downtown shortly after the first engine made the scene at 6:20 a.m. Flames were already busting through every window.
“The Z” is a behemoth, mural-splashed, 10-floor parking garage that can accommodate 1,300 vehicles in downtown Detroit.
Scavengers are wreaking havoc for a small treasure of scrap metal.
From downtown’s beautiful bright lights to the darkened neighborhoods, Detroit is a different city at night.
We took a stroll as fog blanketed Detroit this morning.
Photographer Emily Lockhart’s project, “Detroit: An Activist,” offers a closeup glimpse of the human struggle.