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Humboldt St. (I can't hear that name without thinking of Humboldt, CA, but whatever) is just a typical street that runs through some typical Milwaukee suburban areas, nice little residential neighborhoods like you will find in any other Midwestern city. On this street, is "Pitch's Lounge" which is a great restaurant. They are apparently known for their ribs, which I definitely recommend. If you're used to just eating ribs from Applebee's and other chain places like that, you are in for quite a surprise if you go to Pitch's - the ribs, and french fries, are absolutely delicious. So I'd recommend traveling down Humboldt St. if for nothing else, than to check out that restaurant.

Ha ha, here's a street with a pretty descriptive name. Lake Park road. In this case, it is remarkably accurate, because the road is indeed located right next to a park, which happens to be by the lake! Surprise! It is a beautiful park. It has tennis courts and a little softball diamond, and a bunch of nice wooded areas to walk through. A very nice place during the summer, and it's right near the lake. Great for a pointless afternoon walk or drive during the summer. It can be accessed off of Lincoln Parkway which runs right along the lake, another nice street.

We drove down this street a few times just for the hell of it. It is a beautiful view of one of the most beautiful lakes in the world, Lake Michigan! It goes by all the yacht marinas and what I assume are some of the slightly ritzier housing areas of suburban Milwaukee. Reminds me of similar areas around Glen Cove, NY, where I was born. Unlike the chaotic LSD in Chicago, you can drive down Lincoln and get a nice view of the lake. It also goes through some very nice park-type areas.

I like this street because, for some reason, it reminds me of the streets in Queens, NY, where my grandparents live. I have no idea why, it just does. It's a suburban area, or relatively suburban compared to downtown Milwaukee, and there are just typical suburban houses on it - we visited someone's dad there and I recall it being a nice walk. There's a park on Brown St. where we hung out for a little while. It's not a bad area, not spectacular, just average, I guess. But again it's an example of how random streets in Milwaukee tend to be less dangerous and more peaceful than random streets in any other given city.

There is a Polk Street in San Francisco that is a very busy, flashy area with a lot of gay bars, punk rockers, et cetera. So when I drove down this Polk Street in Milwaukee I couldn't help but laugh at how different it was than the one I'm used to. This is just a boring road down through some industrial storage areas, nothing interesting about it whatsoever! But at the Western end of it is the Riverfront pizza parlor which is where we went, definitely a good restaurant. So that's the one plus-side of it - it leads to a pretty good bar.

Like many people I enjoy the Great Lakes and this street (Lake Pkwy.) is a long road that goes up and down Lake Michigan. My friends and I drove up and down this street numerous times just on random late-night cruises. It has a good view of the lake. As for the other scenery, it's not amazing, just a lot of industrial thingamabobs and storage areas and stuff, but it's a nice, straight long street, and if you've got a fast car, that's good enough! It beats the heck out of driving on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, it's a madhouse there!

I was visiting a friend in Milwaukee and his girlfriend lived on this street. It's not like it's the most fabulous area on earth, although as I've said before, Milwaukee is one of those Midwestern cities where I have never once felt in danger. I guess Midwesterners and specifically people from Wisconsin tend to be pretty nice and peaceful, unless you insult the Packers. Anyway, Lafayette Pl. and Farwell is the area I'm talking about here and there was a great middle eastern restaurant called Abu's. I would recommend this to anyone in the area, it's surprising that there'd be a great Arab restaurant in Milwaukee but the city is full of surprises.

Brady St. one hell of a location for all the restaurants and bars that are on it. I visited this with a friend attending college in WI and we went all over the place drinking and checking out the restaurants. This street had one of the best of them, Coco's (I think that's what it was called,) a really, really good place to eat. There were a bunch of other bars in the area too. Apollo Cafe was good too, I always like a good Greek restaurant that is not too expensive. Check it out if you are in the area for sure.

I was visiting a friend in college here and we hung out in this area a lot. Jefferson St. has these great bars, one of them I think was called Mikes, could be wrong, there was a Chinese restaurant there that was pretty good for cheap food when you're drunk. The best bar on the street was probably Taylor's, it had a great atmosphere and good food/drinks. I get the vibe that it's more of a grad-student-age area and not so much the younger students doing the "bar crawl" as it is at IU in Bloomington, IN. Definitely a good street to visit if you are in the area.

I visited a friend attending college here and his house (I think his parents might have owned it, I can't remember) was on this street. In any case, it was a really nice neighborhood. It was the summer and we would just sit on his porch drinking beer and smoking cigarettes and listening to the crickets in his yard. The street is just in a typical little suburban sub-division, it's a nice area and would probably be a good place to raise your kids. Milwaukee is always going to be up there on my list of really nice cities in the Midwest...not once did I ever feel unsafe there.

This is definitely a great part of Detroit. It runs right along an absolutely GORGEOUS park, with beautiful trees that look amazing in the summer. Right on this street is one of the best bars I've ever been to, "Proof." You have to stop by that bar if you're in the area. Another noteworthy restaurant on the street is Elwood's, which you should stop by if you're going to or coming from a game at Ford Field. They have a great chicken sandwich, or at least they did when I went there. Along with Woodward Ave. Adams is another must-visit for any tourist who wants to see the best parts of Detroit!

This is a beautiful area. Anytime someone says that Detroit is an ugly city, tell them about Madison Street. It's actually more of a boulevard than a street because there are nice big tree-lined medians running down it, really pretty. There's an absolutely beautiful park right at the end of it, which is near Cheli's Chili Bar (a great restaurant which you should definitely try if you're in the area.) The general area, near Woodward and Park Avenue, is a must-visit for a tourist staying in Detroit. Check it out, you won't be disappointed!

Why would they call this pointless, dreary street a boulevard? A boulevard is supposed to be nice. This street is not nice in the least. It's just a grimy and depressing road through a decaying area of parking lots. It always seems like there is construction around here which is never getting finished, and something tells me that it'd be a great area to rob or murder someone, except for the fact that you'd have to be really stupid or really bored to walk through it to begin with. There's no logical reason to go down this street, so just forget about it.

It looks like a bombed out war zone in Kosovo or something over on 3rd Street. I once saw what I think could have been a dead guy lying in the dirt on this street, although he might have just been passed out drunk (I hope.) It is not a nice area...definitely slum conditions. When you hear people talk disparagingly about Detroit and how dangerous and dirty it supposedly is, it's places like this that they're talking about. There really is no reason to drive down this street during the course of a regular day to get anywhere you'd need to go, so please just stay away from it.

You should definitely stop around the area on Woodward Avenue near the Ford Field where the Tigers play...there are about a billion amazing restaurants here. The Fox Town Grill (I think that's what it's called) is the best of all of them, it's a little expensive, but definitely worth it. The Second City Comedy Theater is on this street, you should stop by there and see the improv shows if you are a tourist visiting Detroit. I could go on and on about all the stuff here...the Hockeytown restaurant is good...after or before going to a baseball game you have to eat at one of these restaurants. Just aces, aces all the way.

This is a great place to hang out. It has some really really good restaurants on it. There's a place called Bert's that has really good barbecue, and there are about a dozen or so other great places nearby, a pizza place, a pita restaurant, a place called "Farmer's" which is truly excellent and I'd definitely recommend it. It's very rare to see so many great restaurants on one street, but Russell Street definitely has them. Gotta stop by here if you're going to visit Detroit.

There's a famous mental institution called Bellevue that I've heard about. Funny, because I'm assuming that the word in French means a nice view, or positive connotations of some kind. But this Bellevue St. in Detroit is a really ugly place. It just goes through a bunch of rusty, decaying storage areas and vacant lots where there used to be destroyed buildings. It's downright scary, and definitely not a place you would ever want to find yourself at night. I have no idea what goes on there but it's probably not pleasant. Parts of it really look like a war zone. Stay away from here!!

8 Mile gets a reputation from the Eminem movie as being a really shady, dangerous place. I wouldn't really say it's a hell-hole like the movie makes it seem. It's certainly not the kind of place you want to be walking around at night, but during the day it's not that bad. Maybe the crime was worse a few years ago but nowadays it's not that I feel at risk there, it's just that it's not that nice to look at. There's nowhere good to eat, not really - just fast food restaurants, and there aren't many pleasant sights, just parking lots and more parking lots. Storage facilities, warehouses and the like. Typical rust-belt industrial decay in some areas, others are fairly green and can be nice during the summer. But I would not want to live here!

By virtue of being a main street, it's kept fairly un-shady. There are far more dangerous places in Detroit that you could be. Where it intersects with Conant Street there's a fun bar and jazz cafe called Mandy's, and of course Buddy's Rendevous Pizza, which is one of the best pizza joints I've ever eaten in , maybe second only to Rockit's in Bloomington, IN. It's not really the kind of street you go walking around on, more of a driving strip. It's kept pretty well-lit at night and I've never really felt at risk there after I've parked my car, but I have lived in more dangerous places so maybe I'm jaded. It intersects with a bunch of little side streets and neighborhoods.

East Palmer Ave. is a pretty nondescript street that basically just goes through some suburban areas, lots of houses with green yards and trees. As for food, it's not that great, but there are some okay places to eat. There's a Coney Island restaurant and a Subway nearby, and a Riteway market if you head west but that will put you in a slightly more shady area. In my opinion the street gets nicer as you head East on it. It dead-ends on Maxwell Avenue and there is a seafood restaurant nearby that's pretty decent. Detroit gets a bad rap but there are areas of it that are really not that bad and this street is one of them. Just an average place - I'd rather live in Indiana though!