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St. Clair Street is located in the Southeast Detroit area and is a perfect example of a poverty stricken ghetto area.
Many burned out, vacant homes adorn each block.
Very low quality of life, often poorly dressed landscaping with litter and trash dumps in vacant lots.
This street crosses Mack Avenue, a street widely known by the local residents for high volumns of drug trafficing, prostitutes and other crimes.
The only good thing I ever noticed about this street was the good access to the local bus lines on Mack & Warren Avenues, where one could travel into Downtown Detroit with ease and connect with the west side bus lines for the city.
I worked in the St. Clair Market on St. Clair & Mack Avenue, where I also had an apartment above this store.
The store was burned to the ground so I lost my job, my home & my possessions, so I moved back to west side of the city and worked for that store owner's brother's store on West Chicago and Abington near my parents' home.

Daniels Street runs north to south in an area near Southwest Detroit, an area known for Hispanic/Latino gangs and a high rate of crimes such as auto theft, assaults and breakins.
This street is west Of Livernois and has a high amount of pedestrian/vehicle traffic, especially in the late evening hours.
Many times throughout the evening hours, sirens from emergency, police and fire agencies are heard.
A local high school named Chadsey, which is about a half mile southwest of Daniels Street, closed recently due to insufficent funding from local, state and federal governmeents making this area serious lacking in schooling for older teens.
Since the Detroit Police Department rezoned their preconcts in the 90's, a local precinct at matin & McGraw was closed, escalting crime and lowering the residents' chances for police services in this area.

Westwood Street is located in Northwest Detroit, running north and south from the city limits of Dearborn at Paul Street to the city limits at Eight Mile Road, Southfield, Michigan.
A very narrow street, adorned with nice brick homes in the southernmost stretch, this street also runs through many viscious neighborhoods of Detroit.
This street does cross many east and west thoroughfares such as West Warren, I-96 Freeway (Jeffries Freeway), Grand River and others, offering great acess to major east and west bus lines throughout the city.
High amounts of drug traffic here as well, many vacant burned out shells of homes in virtually every block.
Extremely noisy at night, often times sirens from emergency/police/fire heard throughout the late evening hours.
Not a good family atmosphere, parks unkept, basically no access to any type of major shopping stores.

Fullerton Street is in Northwest Detroit and runs through some of the noisiest inner city neighborhoods, with a large amount of drug traffic, breakins, car thefts and gangs.
When I lived on Fullerton on the corner of LaSalle, there was alot of gunfire in the evening hours, high drug traffic on many of the sidestreets, including Fullerton and many times the sound of emergency/police/fire vehicles heard throughout the night.
There are many youth gangs that prowl the streets at night, especially around Davison Avenue, the area is quite loaded with vacant and/or burned out homes and there is relatively no major shopping areas to speak of as many retail store chains have moved from this area due to high crime from retail fraud, etc.
Many times most of this street in many areas is poorly lit.

Rutland Street runs north to south in Northwest Detroit, from the city limit of Eight Mile Road (Southfield, MI)the city limit at Paul Street (Dearborn, MI).
Many vacant and/or burned out homes in the areas between Joy & the city Limit at Eight Mile.
Extremely high drug/pedestrian traffic, many home invasions, breakins, assaults, etc on a somewhat regular basis, especially if one is not from the area and/or passing through too slow.
My family lived in the area of this street for 29 years and I also lived on this street for approximately a year; Our home on Rutland was broken into, where the thugs threw all of our furniture though the windows and fired guns into the walls and ceilings. Apparently, they had been looking for someone and they definitely had the wrong address! I moved back home!

Joy Road is mainly in Northwest Detroit, running east to west from the east-west side divider main street, Woodward Avenue to the Detroit city limits at West parkway in Rouge Park and continuing through the western suburbs of Redford and Livonia.
Joy Road is for the most part a commercial business street with some boarded up businesses and many empty areas.
The Herman Gardens projects, where my family lived for about 9 years in the 70's is now leveled and covers the areas between Joy Road, Tireman Avenue, Asbury Park and the Southfield Freeway (M-39).
many areas of Joy Road have high traffic, both pedestrian and vehicles.
My parents also ran a bar on Joy Road about 5 blocks east of the Southfield Freeway in the 70's and they had numerous issues with the locals such as cars stolen, broken glass in the parking lot and many attempts to sell/use drugs in the establishment.
Not a safe street at night, definitely not for pedestrians.

Westfield Street runs east and west through Northwest Detroit and through the western suburbs of Redford and Livonia, Michigan.
There are many breaks in this street where a person would have to go around various parks such as Stoepel Park #2, Judge C. Stein Playfield, Rouge Park and often times industrial areas.
Mostly residential, with the newer homes starting from the city limits in Rouge park, Westfield Street runs through extremely rough areas with high drug traffic, especially in the evening early morning hours.
If one is not from this area, I would highly suggest never walking or even driving through this street at night.
My family lived in thie area near West Chicago & Southfield Freeway for 29 years and this area is extremely rough, not very neighborly for outsiders.

Burt Road is in Northwest Detroit, running from Tireman Street north to Eight Mile Road, with some left and right turns required to stay on this street. This street is approximately 7 miles long and runs directly past Rouge Park and the Rouge Golf Course, the golf course now closed.
From Tireman Avenue to Schoolcraft Street tghere are no homes on the west side of tthe street as most of that side is Rouge Park or various business as one nears Schoolcraft and the I-96 Freeway.
In the warm months, one can go to Rouge Park for outdoor grilling, baseball/football games at the many open areas and often times, there are model plane enthusiasts flying near the area of Tireman & Burt Roads, where they have there own lockers and flying field area.
Not a safe street at night, rather busy traffic near the main streets.

Martin Street is roughly near the Southwest side of Detroit, Michigan, running north & south from West Warren Avenue to John Kronk Street. This street offers close access to the I-94 Freeway and Michigan Avenue as it crosses both.
Relatively quiet with busy traffic as Martin Street is somwhat of a connector main street.
More than usual pedestrian traffic, due mainly to nearby schools and businesses on connecting main streets.
Large two story homes with front or back patio porches on 2nd level.

Holmes Street begins one block east of McDonald Street and runs approximately one mile west, where it ends at an angled street named Sarena. This street runs east and west, directly behind West Warren Avenue, a main street that covers the whole city of Detroit east side to west side.
The I-94 freeway is near this street & Holmes Street is strictly residential with large two story homes that date back into the early 1900's.
I lived on this street back in the 80's and it was a relatively quiet area then.
Not a bad street to raise a family as the homes are quite spacious.