Charlotte St, Central Hyde Park

As you go from Main Street toward the East along Armour Blvd, you see a number of very nice lookin apartment buildings which appear ritzy. This must be a nice areas of town, you tell yourself. Come back at night and it's a different story.

The road is well maintained and as with most boulevards in Kansas City, it runs through an almost park-like setting. In fact, its so idyllic that you don't even notice that there are high-rise apartments on the road unless you take a step back.

There is at least one complex, newly renovated, where the police seem to have a perpetual presence and a constant group of people loitering around.

It's an area that seems nice, but is nice to avoid at night.