What do you consider as an industrial wasteland?

[simguy228]

Ybor City, Tampa, FL

[agentsteel53]

You may say depressing, but at least it's a sign of progress. That said, I agree with you that starbucks isn't what NY is about it...NYC is a fabulous city, no doubt.

no, there are about 47321890 better, or at least more interesting, coffee places in NYC.  luckily even the Harlem batch from which I extracted that Starbucks photo has a lot of small-business storefronts; good to know the rebuilding is not brought to you solely by faceless chains. 

Brooklyn still has a very "1980s New York" feel to it - in everything ranging from its businesses to its graffiti to its non-gentrified population distributions... but without the rampant violent crime.  I've felt perfectly safe walking around and taking the subway in Brooklyn around 2-6am.

[BigMattFromTexas]

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=31.483558,-100.463555&spn=0,359.969187&z=16&layer=c&cbll=31.483439,-100.463721&panoid=I7Hu2LaMb7krqmZbxkMtnQ&cbp=12,173.09,,0,3.81
^Hirschfeld Industries, the corporate  headquarters are in San Angelo.
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[juscuz410]

Steubenville,OH/Weirton,WV. Although the 4th St. historic district in Steubenville is very nice and shows a glimmer of what that city could be if it got its act together.

[un1]

The. Whole. World.

Jokes aside, I saw some images of Detroit and it doesn't look to good. I cant say Thunder Bay is anything better but we aren't a ghost town ... yet. If I think further, I can think of more but I don't have time though I'd imagine every city has its wasteland spots.