- Middle East, Baltimore
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Middle East is a neighborhood in the heart of East Baltimore, Maryland. It is patrolled by the Baltimore Police Department's Eastern District.
It was the site of a conflict between residents and the city's plans for creating a biotech park to serve nearby Johns Hopkins Medical Center. The neighborhood has suffered from extensive urban decay and housing abandonment, crime, and racial rioting. Its residents are mainly lower income African Americans; the neighborhood was a filming location for the Baltimore-based HBO drama The Wire. Middle East is also noteworthy as being a location for the filming of scenes of the television series Homicide: Life on the Street and the 1991 film Homicide (no relation to the TV series) featuring Joe Mantegna.
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Location
Middle East is bordered by East Biddle Street to the north, North Broadway to the west, Bradford Street to the east, and East Fayette Street to the south. Clockwise from the northwest, it is bordered by the neighborhoods of Oliver and Broadway East to the north; Biddle Street, Milton-Milford, McElderry Park, and Patterson Place to the east; Butcher's Hill and Washington Hill to the south; and Dunbar-Broadway and Gay Street to the west.
Demographics
As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 5,420 people residing in the neighborhood. The ethnic makeup of Middle East was 94.4% African American, 3.0% White, 0.9% Asian, 0.9% Hispanic or Latino, 0.3% Native American, 0.6% from other ethnicities, and 0.7% from two or more ethnicities. 35.6% of occupied housing units were owner-occuped. 29.6% of housing units were vacant.
35.8% of the population were employed, 11.0% were unemployed, and 53.4% were not in the labor force. The median household income was $15,493. About 43.7% of families and 45.7% of the population were below the poverty line.
References
- ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
External links
- Middle East Conflict, Baltimore City Paper
- National Design Competition Middle East Program
- Demographics from Baltimore Neighbohoord Indicators Alliance
- East Baltimore Development Initiative, Baltimore Housing Department
- Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth
- Wish You Weren't Here: A Guided Tour Of The Wire's East Baltimore
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Categories:- Neighborhoods in Baltimore, Maryland
- Populated places in Maryland with African American majority populations
- Maryland geography stubs
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