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Highlandtown, arguably the very quintessence of Baltimore, was once a small town outside the city limits. The look and feel of the area still belies these beginnings. Much like the surrounding areas of Canton and Fells Point, Highlandtown feels like a small town trapped in a big city. The brick rowhouses with their marble stoops are typical of the architecture seen in Baltimore City. The corner bars, no matter how much they look like dives, are always populated by locals. Although Highlandtown had been seen as "going downhill," the area is now resurgent -- many young couples are buying and fixing up homes, and many businesses (both small and big) are moving in along the main drag on Eastern...
Highlandtown, arguably the very quintessence of Baltimore, was once a small town outside the city limits. The look and feel of the area still belies these beginnings. Much like the surrounding areas of Canton and Fells Point, Highlandtown feels like a small town trapped in a big city. The brick rowhouses with their marble stoops are typical of the architecture seen in Baltimore City. The corner bars, no matter how much they look like dives, are always populated by locals. Although Highlandtown had been seen as "going downhill," the area is now resurgent -- many young couples are buying and fixing up homes, and many businesses (both small and big) are moving in along the main drag on Eastern Avenue.
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Elizabeth Large's top 10
Last Tuesday on Dining@Large, I published a list of All-American Restaurants. It was a tougher category than I thought it would be: I didn't want to include diners and barbecue places, because they deserve Top 10s of their own, and I didn't want to...Tags: Dundalk, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Pies and Tarts, Dining and Drinking, Catonsville
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Top 10 All-American Restaurants
Dining@LargeAll-American Restaurants was a tougher category than I thought it would be. I didn't want to include diners and barbecue places, because they deserve Top 10s of their own. And I didn't want to include restaurants like Cafe Hon that......Tags: Dundalk, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Pies and Tarts, Dining and Drinking, Catonsville
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Neighborhood profile: Highlandtown
Special to The SunHighlandtown is an artists' haven and a city arts and entertainment district bounded by Haven Street on the east, Pratt Street to the north, Patterson Park to the west and Eastern Avenue to the south. The neighborhood has a blue-collar, small-town...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Dining and Drinking, Patterson Park, Minority Groups, United States
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Funnel cloud photos from June 9 storm
Maryland WeatherThe National Weather Service has begun to receive and pass along eyewitnesses' photos of a funnel cloud that formed in the outer portion of Baltimore Harbor last Tuesday, June 9. The twister formed as a strong gust front passed over......Tags: Timonium, Dundalk, Weather Reports, Apple iPhone, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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New apartment and retail project planned in East Baltimore
Baltimore Sun reporterBaltimore's former Highlandtown Middle School will be converted to a $30 million apartment and retail project called The Patterson, under a plan proposed by Focus Development of Baltimore and accepted by the city. Baltimore housing commissioner Paul... -
Eugene J. Wysocki
Eugene J. "Gino" Wysocki, a retired Baltimore police officer who patrolled the harbor and spent his free time playing the trombone at East Baltimore social events, died of cancer Monday at Franklin Square Hospital Center.
The Dundalk resident was 77....Tags: Timonium, Glenn Miller, American Legion, Tommy Dorsey, Patapsco
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New neighborhood may rise
Southeast Baltimore has stable neighborhoods such as Canton, Highlandtown, Fells Point, Brewer's Hill and Greektown.
Now there's an opportunity to create a new neighborhood that could add 3,500 to 4,000 residences to the same part of town over the next...Tags: Fells Point, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Greektown, Station North, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Riding shotgun to see police in action
"Lovely," Kari Snyder groaned as she rode shotgun with Officer David Bednar on patrol in Southeast Baltimore. A call had just come over the radio for two men selling drugs on a corner that just happened to be at the end of the 29-year-old's street in...Tags: Vehicles, Patterson Park, Gang Activity, Arson, Fires
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School will house apartments
Baltimore's former Highlandtown Middle School is targeted for conversion to a $30 million apartment and retail project called The Patterson, under a plan proposed by Focus Development of Baltimore and accepted by the city. Baltimore housing...Tags: Apartments, Patterson Park, Rentals
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The only thing missing is Bob Dylan himself
There have been any number of Bob Dylans over the years. He's been a poet, a prophet and a revolutionary. He's been a rocker, a folk singer, even a crooner. He's been a singer of love ballads, of protest songs, of country standards.
A whole bunch of...Tags: Edith Piaf, Folk Music, Bob Dylan, Music Industry, Frank Zappa
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Dilapidated buildings lure urban explorers
Baltimore Sun reporterAn abandoned garment-making plant near Green Mount Cemetery has become a lure to a band of adventurers who crave the thrill of its shadows and dank spaces. Calling themselves urban explorers, these uninvited, but tenacious visitors slip into to the...Tags: Photography, Property, Panera Bread Company, Catonsville
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