Baltimore/East Baltimore
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East Baltimore is a sparsely populated, mostly residential district covering about a third of the entire city in the very rough east of downtown and the borderline suburban northeast.
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This part of the city is notable principally for helping to keep Baltimore's homicides per capita among the highest in the nation, and unsurprisingly has been used as a filming location for both the Wire and more extensively for Homicide: Life on the Street. Further out into the northeast, especially along Harford Road (brought into the popular consciousness by John Waters' recent film, A Dirty Shame), is where you will find very off the beaten path points of interest.
East Baltimore is also home to the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus, which is somewhat controversially demolishing the blighted neighborhoods that surround it in order to accommodate its ever rapid expansion. Displaced residents are not pleased, but Johns Hopkins is probably the single most powerful institution in the city, and the hospital is likely to get its way! Sensing neighborhood change in the wake of the expansion, real estate developers have been buying up properties by the block, looking to turn them into condos. The city government is quite interested in renovating areas so close to downtown (for the new tax base that would bring), particularly in the borderline ghost town of Old Town. A yuppified East Baltimore is at least a possibility in the future, but what a contrast that would be to the present reality!
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- Chap's Pit Beef, 5801 Pulaski Hwy (US-40), ☎ +1 410 483-2379, [1]. Su-Th 10:30AM-10PM, F-Sa 10:30AM-midnight. Chap's has long served the best pit beef in the city, and is the place to come if you want the real deal. Alas, the lines in recent months have shot out the door after the gurus at the Food Network, Travel Channel, et al., have caught the little sandwich shop in their massive spotlight. That's all the more surprising given its seedy (but perfectly safe) location next to a strip club and an adult video wholesaler's. Chap's itself is, however, not such a dive, and is a nice place to sit and enjoy your meal on the wood picnic tables enveloped in Ravens colors. The pit beef eclipses all else on the menu, but the dry-rub ribs as well as the rice pudding merit a little extra expense. $5-15. edit
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- Red Canoe, 4337 Harford Road, [3]. Bookstore and cafe in Lauraville (NE Baltimore) sells Zeke's coffee by the cup. edit
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