In addition, a number of its restaurants are in crime-ridden inner-city areas where growth is limited.

In 1949, the Desire Projects were built, which became the city's dirtiest and most crime-ridden area.

Taxi drivers sometimes dropped off passengers at 96th Street rather than venture farther north to what they considered to be a crime-ridden area.

The marsh is near crime-ridden areas on the east side of the city.

Some point out that East New York is a blighted, crime-ridden area.

"Its reputation as a crime-ridden area has diminished because the police are doing a good job," he said.

Katwe remains one of the highest crime-ridden areas in Kampala.

Park Place is one of Norfolk's most distressed and crime-ridden areas.

Maria Veiga, 36, stood on tired feet that had carried her six miles from an adjacent suburb through crime-ridden areas of the city.

Though this was hardly a crime-ridden area, one couldn't be too careful nowadays.