This week’s video covers the vacant Ukrainian Workers’ Home on the Detroit/Hamtramck border. More broadly, the video covers Ukrainian immigration to #Detroit & #Hamtramck in the early 20th century and the newly established Ukrainian Heritage Neighborhood. Check it out: youtu.be/G71WIrFnicM

Riding my bike to get a U-Haul this morning, throwing the bike in the back, and continuing on my way. How it should be!

Can you imagine NOT thinking that Gratiot needs a major road diet? A scaled-down bike & pedestrian-friendly Gratiot would be safer for everyone and connect hundreds of thousands of Detroiters on the east side and suburbs. At least 8 people have died in accidents on Gratiot in #Detroit in 2025 alone.

The city recently listed the former Mazer-Cressman Cigar Plant on Grandy, and I think that's a huge mistake. It's a shoo-in for a historic designation. Also, when I posted this on Instagram, somebody told me they hoped I would get robbed in the city for making my videos, so here we are.

This week’s video is on the Mazer-Cressman Cigar Plant in Poletown East, an Albert-Kahn-designed plant where Polish immigrant women planned and executed a sit-down strike without union representation in 1937. Check it out: youtu.be/hNUPsKyayAk

When you're working on your longest YouTube video yet, and the City of Detroit lists the property in question for sale a few days before your video is set to release. Get ready for my longest-est video ever tomorrow at 9:45 AM! 😂

The first annual Poletown East Community Yard Sales will be on Sunday, October 12, from 9 AM until 4 PM, the same day as the St. Hyacinth Banana Festival. There will be an interactive map to help you find the sales and see what people are selling. See you there! 🤙 www.facebook.com/events/13611...

This week’s video is about the Aerocar plant on Mack Avenue, which, for a time, housed the Hudson Motor Car Company before its move to Jefferson Avenue. It’s currently for sale for close to $1,000,000. Check it out: youtu.be/2Y18EYAf8AE

One of the worst developers in Detroit having ties to Epstein wasn't on my 2025 bingo card

This week’s video is about the Livernois-Fenkell Riot on Detroit’s west side in 1975, which stemmed from a shooting at Bob Bolton’s Bar. Then-Mayor Coleman A. Young contained the unrest, and there was only one other fatality during the disturbance. Check it out: youtu.be/CL2UIFsVbvo

This week’s video is on the Stratford Theatre in Southwest #Detroit, and, more broadly, what Detroit can do with the vacant neighborhood theaters still standing. Check it out ⬇️ youtu.be/Oj4UDlV9jxs

Would it be realistic to replace the Detroit/Windsor tunnel bus with a train that uses the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel? It would be easy to plan timetables around freight, and it would be faster than the tunnel bus. Currently owned by CPKC.

This week’s video is about Mack & Bewick, an infamous intersection on Detroit’s east side, and the market that’s been at the corner for over 100 years. Check it out: youtu.be/H9qENIStwDE

Anything is a step up from Keyworth after they axed the bike valet. Two bike racks in Veterans Park aren't enough; the new stadium must be better. I'd love to see DGC's proposed extension for the SW Greenway happen, connecting the stadium to the Riverfront and as far as Junction via bike/walk.

This week’s video is on why #Detroit has so many churches in former bank buildings through the lens of the Peoples State Bank on Chene Street. Check it out ⬇️ youtu.be/f0pIvpj_o_o

Last night, I was walking through the neighborhood when I saw a buck eating from one of our neighbors' gardens. As I walked down the street, he entered the road, too, and I was so confused as to why he wasn't running away. As I got closer, I noticed that he had brush stuck in his antlers, and...

Turn it into a river

This is a big bummer for a large population of Detroiters who don't have the proper identification to travel to Canada or have ANY kind of felony, because Canada won't allow almost anyone with a record to visit. I always assumed this would be the case, but it still feels like a bummer.

If DCFC wins tonight, I'm going to Al-Haramain to get a Mars bar to celebrate. If DCFC loses, I'm going to Al-Haramain to get a Mars bar to make myself feel better. If we draw, you already know what I'm doing.

Why can't they make a small, fruity-tasting granola bar that gives me an entire day's serving of vegetables? Is that too much to ask?

This week’s video dives into the history of the Michigan Malleable Iron Company in #Detroit, the toxic plot of land it left behind after closing in 1960, and Delray, the village/neighborhood the company called home and polluted for decades. Here’s the video: youtu.be/n54gGcp_qw4 #DetroitHistory

Another miserable day of existence

I was ballot #3 at 9:30 AM at my precinct. GOOOO VOOOTTEEE PLEEAAASSEEE

Was going to ride my bicycle to work today—the air quality said no 😔 Was going to ride the bus to work today—two Mack buses in a row now showing up said no 😔

This week’s video is on the Hillger School, a small Detroit Public School abandoned for at least two decades, which was just listed for nearly $1,000,000. Check it out ⬇️ youtu.be/URNk-2pnqvg

American Motors Corporation Headquarters @ 14250 Plymouth Road, #Detroit Demolished December 2022

I genuinely think that alcohol will be looked at like cigarettes are now in the next 20 years. Maybe I'm wrong.

This has been needed for YEARS. I used to ride my bike from NW Detroit to my job on the river, and the final quarter mile was SO annoying.

This week’s video covers a brief history of St. Albertus School on the east side of #Detroit and dives into the limitless potential that structures like this possess if redeveloped. Check it out ⬇️ youtu.be/6_QQ2iQGuRk

The former Central Savings Bank Branch at 4400 St. Aubin Street in #Detroit was demolished. Built in 1904, addition in 1905. It was last used as the Lillie R. Gresham Community Education Center, which offered tutoring and GED prep and had a computer lab. It hadn’t had a roof for quite some time.

On Friday, I released a video about the Mineral Range Depot in Calumet, Michigan, which some call the “Ellis Island of Copper Country” due to it being the location where most immigrants first arrived in the northern portion of the Keweenaw Peninsula. Check it out ⬇️ youtu.be/xCm_J-6bzI0

Even though I post more about my map of Detroit, I’ve also mapped interesting, natural, and historic places all around Michigan. The goal was to help people plan road trips, and it’s expanded from there. www.miroadtrip.com/map

Detroit Free Press, 1919 “Today people are waking up to the possibilities of the bicycle as a practical, economical means of ‘getting there.’ Congested conditions, poor transportation service, and long distances in cities are problems over which the bicyclist loses little sleep.”

Ad in the Detroit Free Press from 1879

This week, I made a video on Parent’s Creek, which became known as Bloody Run after a battle during Pontiac’s War in 1763. Well over a century ago, the waterway was forced underground, though there have been conversations about daylighting the creek. Check it out ⬇️ youtu.be/Mo-Y-Bendoo

Gone by 10 AM today

“To intimidate and get in the way”

This week, I made a video on the history of the Glen-Villa Apartments and, more generally, the history of #HighlandPark, an enclave almost entirely surrounded by #Detroit. Check it out ⬇️ youtu.be/yYA-Iv5qCjs

This home in #Detroit is about to be demolished. Currently owned by the Land Bank with a low sale price, but they are demanding proof of funds for a reno, which they estimate at $223K. This isn't realistic for the kind of person who would take this project on, and is the reason it'll be demolished.

Someone keeps putting up new plywood at this house down the street only for somebody to promptly come by and rip it off. Certainly there can’t be any scrap left, so I think this is for the love of the game

This week, I made a video on the Raven Lounge on Chene Street, Michigan’s oldest and best blues bar. Check it out ⬇️ youtu.be/-yaXBLE54Gc

Without a doubt, this place was salvageable. The love this family gets in Detroit is an absolute disgrace, IMO.

Breaking: Lord Farquaad, ruler of Duloc, has endorsed Andrew Cuomo for mayor of New York City

This week, I made a video on the Calumet Brewing Company in Michigan's #KeweenawPeninsula, which has been abandoned for over a century. Check it out ⬇️ youtu.be/esOSfRa-tYY

I drank more than 258 ounces of water yesterday and woke up thirsty—I am not made for this heat 😂

A Rail-WITH-Trail situation for this railroad line through #Detroit would be incredibly useful. It's a near straight shot from Hamtramck to Downriver, and you could add entrance/exits in Milwaukee Junction, Lincoln Street, Core City, SW, and Delray for cycling and walking across town.

I've never wanted someone to win a mayoral race in a city I’ve never lived in more than I want Zohran Mamdani to win in NYC

Whenever I call a service based in the suburbs and they tell me that I'm outside of their service area (despite #Detroit being on their website), I can't help but imagine them looking at Google Street View quickly and being like "nah fam, we're not doing work there" lol

This week, I made a video on the Merchants Warehouse in Southwest Detroit, which was the site of a Purple Gang distillery that was raided by the feds in 1935 and later became Kidz Playland. Check it out ➡️ youtu.be/pZdDF465Hzw

This week, I made a video on the former St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Calumet, Michigan, which became Saint Paul the Apostle in 1966 due to population loss in the region after the loss of copper mining jobs. Check it out ➡️ youtu.be/Xh4v7sogVyE