McGraw spent five months driving every single block of every single street in the city of Detroit. That's 2,100 streets, or as McGraw puts it, taking a 2,700-mile road trip without ever leaving the city:
The idea was to get a unique view of Detroit, a short-term, street-level survey of Detroit's 138 square miles, a once-in-a-lifetime snapshot of the city Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and others insist is coming back.
From downtown -- where the comeback is evident -- through the immense territory of Detroit's neighborhoods -- where the future seems less certain -- the trip was never boring.
I saw well-to-do people moving into $1-million homes. Forlorn people emerging from sleeping in weeds. Artists taking over old factories. Trash cooking in the sun. Neighbors talking on porches. Roosters crowing. A prostitute on a bicycle.
He just wrapped up a several-part series on what he saw on the streets of Motor City. Here's the intro to the series, with links to each story.
