The rest of the dock scenes were probably done at the Dundalk facilities.
Interestingly, the location of the Major Crimes Unit building is just down the street.Baltimore’s City Hall and War Memorial Plaza were a backdrop in several episodes.
If they ever take down the blue awning, you will still see the original tv shop sign – “John’s Radio & TV”. Facing the place, to your back, is the courthouse where Proposition Joe and Stringer Bell met in the rain — the same courthouse steps featured in Barry Levinson’s Orlando’s strip club on South Broadway was the base of operations for Avon Barksdale’s crew during the first seasons of The Wire, until ambition got the better of Orlando. That school closed down a while ago and it currently opened as a public charter school. Herc lost a surveillance camera here as well.Several locations were used as drug corners during the filming of At the intersection of North and Gay, the Rim Source, with its windows distinctively outlined with blue neon lights, was one of Marlo’s meeting spots.Proposition Joe ran a repair shop at 301 S. Highland in Highlandtown, most recently a jewelry repair shop but presently vacant.Pingback: Monday Morning Links Round-Up – August 10th EditionAnother good spot is Western District Headquarters. We lived behind the TV shop. There is a surprising dearth of gas stations in the city, so fill up first! As it was during filming, the location is actually a strip club — the Ritz Cabaret.
With the total number of crimes being just over 9,000 per 100K people, West Baltimore has around 2,000 violent crimes per 100K people and 7,000 property crimes per 100K residents.
One of the major venues for the Barksdale crew were the Pit and the Tower, based on the McCollough Homes on the west side and other similar projects such as the Poe Homes and Lexington Terrace.
Stringer Bell’s copy shop is just a few doors down at 510 S. Broadway.From this small dockside building on a desolate stretch of South Clinton street, Lt. Daniels, Lester Freamon and other members of the major crimes unit played a never-ending game of cat and mouse with violent drug gangs, mobsters and corrupt public officials.This quintessential Bauhaus building designed by Mies van der Rohe, used as the location for the Baltimore City police headquarters, was part of the original Charles Center redevelopment project in the early 1960s. There used to be an old grain pier to the old ADM grain facility in Locus Point. The other side of the West Side is the Baltimore hoods of Northwest in sections like Park Heights or Liberty Heights, or into Southwest Baltimore with hoods like Irv Town and Yale Heights.
(App. Topping the list is the West Baltimore neighborhood. This stretch of Lexington Avenue runs through what was supposedly Hamsterdam.This eastside park, with a commanding view overlooking the Johns Hopkins medical center and the waterfront in the distance, was the location of several meetings during the course of The dockside S. Clinton Street restaurant where Vonda and the Greek hung out. Project ID: 20200185 West side of Shipley Road, 2,178 feet south of Silverside Road.
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The facility closed shortly afterward. These are real neighborhoods with a vibrant culture that the locals Note that it is highly inappropriate to photograph people without their express permission. Further out of the downtown area covered by the tour but still very much within the city limits is This tour purposefully ends in Central Baltimore.
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The hand-wringing associated with the terribly distasteful and offensive term "ghetto tourism" is a bit overwrought and contrived, but there are pitfalls to be aware of.
This is a good time for a side trip: You're near another fine food establishment that, while not a filming location, was referred to several times in the first season as a favorite place among the gangsters for their delicious coddies, Several blocks down at 1268 E North Ave on the left you will pass by a location of the oft-filmed (A slight detour to 1400 Jackson St at the corner of Clement and Jackson will put you at a house that served as the location for Delores' Bar frequented by the longshoremen.) This tour will take you through examples of some of the more impoverished and alienated urban communities in the United States, and if your purpose is to "gawk at poverty," you are here for the wrong reasons. As in in urban area, daytime might be safer than after dark.You definitely don’t want to visit 2396 South Clinton Street after sunset!