Sandtown-Winchester, Baltimore
Sandtown-Winchester | ||
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Neighborhood statistical area | ||
Area code 410, 443, and 667 | | |
Sandtown-Winchester is a neighborhood in West
Monroe Street, covering an area of 72 square blocks, patrolled by the Baltimore Police Department's Western District.[2] The community is 98.5% black.[3]
History
Sandtown is located in a historically black area of West Baltimore neighboring the once affluent
death of Freddie Gray, 3% of its population was incarcerated, a third of its housing abandoned, 20% of working age people were unemployed, and a third of residents were living in poverty.[6]
In 2015 Wall Street Journal op-ed columnist William Galston drew lessons from the history of Port Clinton, Ohio, to Baltimore and reported 52% unemployment among 16 to 64 year-olds in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood, twice the unemployment rate of Baltimore as a whole.[7][8]
Schools
- Gilmor Elementary School, grades Pre-k to 5[9]
- New Song Academy, grades Pre-k to 8[10]
- William Pinderhughes Elementary/Middle School, grades Pre-k to 8[11]
- Youth Opportunity Academy, grades 9 to 12[12]
Notable people
- Cab Calloway, late jazz great
- Gervonta Davis, world champion boxer
- Ethel Ennis, jazz singer
- Billie Holiday, jazz singer
- Thurgood Marshall, first African-American justice on the Supreme Court of the United States
- Richard Antoine White, First African-American Ph.D. in Tuba; Principal Tubist for New Mexico Philharmonic and Santa Fe Symphony[13]
- Melvin Williams aka "Little Melvin", former drug lord of Baltimore[citation needed]
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c "Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood in Baltimore". City-Data.com. Retrieved June 28, 2012.
- ^ a b "Sandtown-Winchester". Live in Baltimore. Retrieved June 28, 2012.
- ^ [1] Archived February 13, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bierman, Noah; TanFani, Joseph (April 28, 2015). "In Baltimore, riots appear where urban renewal didn't". Los Angeles Times.
- NPR News.
- ^ Ashkenas, Jeremy; Buchanan, Larry; Desantis, Alicia; Park, Haeyoun; Watkins, Derek (May 3, 2015). "A Portrait of the Sandtown Neighborhood in Baltimore". New York Times.
- ^ Galston, William A. (May 6, 2015). "Politics & Ideas: Pittsburgh's Revival Lesson for Baltimore". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
- ^ Covert, Bryce (April 28, 2015). "The Economic Devastation Fueling the Anger in Baltimore". ThinkProgress. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
- ^ "Gilmor Elementary School". Baltimore City Public Schools.
- ^ "New Song Academy". Baltimore City Public Schools.
- ^ "William Pinderhughes Elementary/Middle School". Baltimore City Public Schools.
- ^ "Youth Opportunity". Baltimore City Public Schools.
- ^ "Hi I'm Richard Antoine White". Retrieved August 20, 2023.