North Baltimore neighborhoods

After years of residents calling for safety measures on 28th Street near I-83, the city implemented a redesign that included traffic-calming measures and reduced the number of travel lanes from two to one. Residents say speeding is way down, but they still worry about overnight crashes into cars and buildings.

Before colonizers arrived, the Piscataway, or “the people where the rivers bend,” lived here. Sumwalt Run flowed beneath an open sky as a tiny capillary connecting what is now North Baltimore to the Atlantic Ocean.

As 2023 winds down, The Banner’s photo staff culled through the thousands of pictures we filed this year to highlight some of the most memorable frames, stories and projects from across Baltimore and the surrounding region.

Detectives are investigating a shooting that killed two men in North Baltimore on Sunday morning. Officers responded to the 3600 block of Greenmount Avenue for reports of a shooting around 3 a.m., a news release said.

The museum said police are investigating but gave no other details.

People still want to buy Kias and Hyundais. Why? Used car salesman Carl Moore says they're “nice-looking” affordable cars with decent warranties.

Maryland Transportation Administration spokesperson Courtney Mims said the car was discovered Saturday night and removed midday Sunday.

Even as Hampden has grown wealthier and more diverse, some Black business owners say racist elements of “Old Hampden” remain stubbornly entrenched in the area.

Audio of the emergency dispatch calls placed that afternoon include two calls for “Mayday” and a scramble for information.

Since 1944, a generational ideology has inspired the local grocer. They’ve invested and renovated as other grocers have closed.

The announcement of a security barrier at Morgan State, which would enclose 90% of the campus, came one week after an alarming shooting that wounded five at the historically Black institution.

Investigators are asking for help identifying the four people seen in the video.

Homecoming at a historically black college like Morgan State University is more than a football game. It represents an opportunity to see familiar faces and new ones.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said at a Wednesday morning press conference that the shooting likely stemmed from a dispute between “two smaller groups.”

Students say they're still grappling with the events of Tuesday night.

Weather stations will be used to track wind, radiation, humidity, precipitation, surface pressure, temperature and other data that can be used to develop climate solutions.

The former Evergreen Cafe on West Cold Spring Lane is set to become an Indian restaurant owned by Binod Uprety, despite some impassioned objections from residents.

“We haven’t lost anything,” Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger said. “And the thing we’ve gained is not having the victim have to testify in a courtroom in front of people.”

The MHEC had previously approved Towson University’s plans, but Attorney General Anthony Brown on Aug. 17 determined that the commission didn’t have enough members present when it voted to overturn a decision by a state official who rejected the program.

An exact opening date for the Hampden coffee shop has not been set, but “we are aiming for early September,” said Nic Koski, who was a barista at Common Ground when it closed and is spearheading the reopening efforts.