37, 38, 39 & 41. Kellogg, Edge Harbor, Briar Ville and Ripley

If the projects are bastions of violence, the slums are breeding grounds for despair. Each location has some overarching, unofficial but buzz worded reason for its decrepitude. Kellogg is “low density, low income” and can’t earn enough to pay for itself. Briar Ville is “overdeveloped sprawl.” Edge Harbor has “disproportionately few non-wetland development opportunities” — it’s a swamp. Ripley is a “socio-economically interdependent” swath of trailer homes and tract houses built by a fly-by-night developer that didn’t bother keeping construction up to code. Whatever the excuse, they’re all dead ends. There’s little too encourage anyone to try very hard here; they’re all neighborhoods of working poor and the equally destitute who get by hustling their neighbors.

Background

With Newcastle in a state of unacknowledged urban renewal, wealthy developers invest in and gentrify in-town neighborhoods, pushing lower-income citizens ever outward as interior property values increase. The slums are in various stages of their 12-years-and-running histories of decline.

Alternative Name(s)

Slums

Type

District

Location under

New Castle