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DETROIT NEIGHBORHOODS · DOWNTOWN

DOWNTOWN DETROIT.

Downtown concentrated government, police headquarters, courts, newspapers, hotels, theaters, business, and transportation into a dense civic core.

Looking north on Woodward Ave. from the Maccabees Building
REAL DETROIT SOURCE · Looking north on Woodward Avenue from the Maccabees Building, Detroit, July 1942.
Source: Arthur S. Siegel / source record · Public domain — FSA/OWI
NEIGHBORHOOD FILE

Reading downtown block by block.

Police Headquarters and bureau geography
Courts and municipal buildings
Newspaper offices and press routes
Hotels, theaters, commercial corridors, and transit
Nighttime versus daytime downtown
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Streets, buildings, institutions, and case-related places can be explained here without turning neighborhood history into case narrative.

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