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Barsamian Preparatory Center

UAW and Ford Motor Company were involved in this incident

Battle of the Overpass

Bedrock Management is a real estate firm. http://bedrockmgt.com/ See http://bedrockmgt.com/properties.html for a list of properties under management.

Bedrock Management

Belle Isle Broadcaster

Belle Isle Conservancy

Belle Isle Nature Zoo

Founded by Sarah Earley in 2003. Merged into the Belle Isle Conservancy in 2011.

Belle Isle Women's Committee

A proposed high school to be housed at Crockett Career and Technical Center. Announced 31 May 2011 in ...

Benjamin Carson School of Science and Medicine

Benjamin Siegel house

William “Benny” Benjamin (b. early 1930s; d. 1969) was a drummer for the Funk Brothers. Sources and bibliography ...

Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoelon has held the position since 2009. He was 56 in 2012. Napoleon was ...

Bentley Historical Library

Bernie's Brigade Awesome Unionist in the Detroit area. Tragic end to his life. The 23nd Annual Bernard Firestone ...

Bernard Firestone Labor Arts Tribute

Berry Gordy Mansion

See German Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert%E2%80%99s_Marketplace

Bert's Marketplace

Greene's, Schaefer & 7mile, Detroit; Orchard Lake & 10 mile Hunter House, Detroit; Woodward & 15 mile, Birmingham ...

Best Sliders In Detroit

Beth Niblock is Detroit's first Chief Information Officer. Duggan hired her in February 2014. She had rejected the ...

Democrat Bettie Scott of Detroit is the current state representative for the 3rd Congressional District of the Michigan ...

Big Bear Food Center

Let's make an awesome page about biking in Detroit! Repairs and services Corktown Cycles has a mobile repair ...

Biking in Detroit

Binder Street Block Club O&R

Dave Bing was elected mayor of Detroit in a special election on May 5, 2009 and was sworn ...

Bing Administration

A large number of senior staff have left the Bing administration. Some are catalogued below. Kirk Lewis, Deputy ...

Senior pastor of Greater Grace Temple Chair of the Detroit Works Project Advisory Committee.

Bishop Charles Ellis III

A charter operator authorized by the Wayne Regional Educational Service Agency. In June 2011, the Academy was chosen ...

Blanche Kelso Bruce Academy

detroitblog by Detroitblogger John: http://www.detroitblog.org/ (also published under the same byline in the Metro Times SEMCOG has a ...

Blogs and Bloggers

Currently runs underground. Was covered by cement in the late 1800s. Developer Richard Baron has proposed daylighting the ...

Bloody Run creek

Empty lots maintained and (usually) bought neighbors. Sized from a block down to a lot. More than a ...

Detroit blues artists past and present... Wiki List John Lee Hooker Harmonica Shah

Bob's Classic Kicks

Bookies Club 870

There are many excellent books on Detroit's history. Several that come highly recommended (and are frequent sources on ...

Books on Detroit history

Groups that promote Detroit

Bosco Fish Mural - Livernois

Boston-Edison Historic District

What do you know about Brenda Jones?

Brewster Douglass Projects

A nonprofit development corporation focused on elders in Southwest Detroit. Since the late 1990s, has acted as a ...

Bridging Communities, Inc.

What are the key things people should know about Detroit? History Too much to summarize right now. Check ...

Broderick Tower

L. Brooks Patterson (1939-) was born in Detroit and has served as Oakland County Executive for two decades. ...

Brooks Patterson

Bruce Giffin, former Metro Times photographer, 2011 winner of the Kresge Fellowship in the Visual Arts, has frequently ...

Talent Intake Director for the Duggan Administration's transition team. Barnhill was Mike Duggan's 2013 mayoral campaign manager. Previously, ...

Bryan C. Barnhill II

Buildings of Detroit is a popular academic architectural history website run by Sean Doerr. The site is named ...

Buildings of Detroit

Shop on Canfield started by Claire Nelson in the Canfield Lofts. The Bureau opened in Spring 2007 and ...

Bureau of Urban Living

An independent film theater in the Cass Corridor. There's a pool table in the men's room. Sited in ...

Follows the plan for Woodward Light Rail. In October 2011, Snyder was planning to announce proposals for bus ...

Bus Rapid Transit

Where to look Why Don't We Own This tracks 44,000+ publicly-owned properties in Detroit. Wayne County has an ...

Buying a house in Detroit

Canada is the country located south of Detroit.

Police Chief James Craig once said that carjacking is “almost like a way of life in Detroit.” As ...

Carjacking in Detroit

United States Senator from Michigan from 1979 to 2015 President of the City Council from 1973 to 1977

Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (born June 25, 1945, Detroit, Michigan) is an American politician and mother of former Detroit ...

Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick

An elementary school. Scheduled to close in June 2011. Sources 4 DPS elementary schools close in June. Detroit ...

During the Great Depression, the wives of Mexican autoworkers (occasionally assisted by their daughters) operated boardinghouses for autoworkers. ...

Casas de asistencia

Cass Community Social Services (CCSS) is a social service agency providing programs for food, health, housing and jobs. ...

Cass Community Social Services

Overview A neighborhood of Detroit currently going through significant transition both north and south of Mack Avenue / ...

Home of a number of progressive groups: Fender Bender People's Kitchen Detroit Whole Note Healing East Michigan Environmental ...

Cass Corridor Commons

Cass Corridor Museum

Established 1982. Has about 20 staff members, including a real estate management arm. Patrick Dorn is Executive Director. ...

Cass Corridor Neighborhood Development Corporation

A school for young and expecting mothers in Detroit. The school opened in 1986. It hosts around 250 ...

Catherine Ferguson Academy

Cedric Tai is a visual artist, educator, writer and curator from Detroit. He is also an inaugural 2009 ...

http://www.centraldetroitchristian.org/ CDCCDC runs lots of programs in central Detroit, including educational programs, job training, homebuyer's education and assistance, ...

Central Detroit Christian CDC

Chad Livengood is the capitol reporter for the Detroit News. @ChadLivengood

In 1936, Detroit was declared the City of Champions by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. April 18th, was specifically ...

Started March 5, 2014 http://TV20Detroit.com/news/Change-Detroit-A-Lent-Challenge-248616511.html

It is with sadness to share that Charity Mahouna Hicks joined the ancestors yesterday, July 8. Continue your ...

Charity Mahouna Hicks

Charles Lambert house

Charles Pugh (born August 3, 1971 in Detroit) was elected president of City Council in 2009. Prior to ...

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Charles Pugh's 60-Pound Weight-Loss Secrets

Charlie Beckham is the chief administrative officer and a longtime friend of Mayor Dave Bing. He has been ...

Charlie Beckham

Previously an Assistant superintendent of buildings at the City of Detroit and reverend at Perfecting Freedom Church in ...

Charlie LeDuff (born 1966) is an American journalist, writer, and media personality. Previously of The Detroit News, he ...

Former Coleman A. Young chief of staff. Will serve as an executive in the Bing administration as of ...

Charlie Williams

Charter Schools in Detroit

1,500 Quicken Loans employees moved in on October 10, 2011. Sources Quicken Loans workers move into Detroit's Chase ...

Was listed as a member of CDAD as of 2010. Its reach and activities are unknown.

Chene Community Providence Alliance Non Profit Housing

Chez | Zara Coffee

Lunch special is a box of food + egg roll/something else for $4.25. Not very vegetarian friendly for ...

Chief Operating Officer of the City. Appointed effective Monday, January 10, 2011; reported by the Detroit Free Press ...

The Christie's auction house was hired by City of Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr to appraise the collection ...

What do you know about Christ the King Catholic Church, located at 20800 Grand River, Detroit, MI? http://christthekingcatholicdetroit.org/

Christ the King Catholic Church

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