ExiledOnline, Dec. 14: If you want directions to see what happened to the American Dream in the age of globalization, go north on Woodward Avenue. When the empty sidewalks and spiffed-up ghosts of department stores give way to miles of vacant lots, piles of arsonists’ ash and ruined factories, you’ve hit your destination: Highland Park. A beaten-down man in a black vinyl coat was there to greet me. Waving his hands furiously while I drove by, the crack-addicted hustler shouted, “Right here! I got that sh%$ right here!”
While Harvey’s piece could be written off as parachute journalism or “ruin porn”, he manages to go into some depth not usually encountered in such drop-ins.
The picture he paints isn’t pretty, but then again, neither are parts of Highland Park, abandoned by automakers in past decades and taken over by a state-appointed emergency financial manager in 2001.
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