GhettoTracker is back!

 

GhettoTracker.com made the news (by which I means the blogs) last week for being overtly racist. The website featured the picture of a beautifully average white family and promised to help you find the “ghetto” parts of town, so you could avoid them. In an attempt to avoid the bad press, the website renamed itself goodpartoftown.com but otherwise remained unchanged. Towards the end of the week, the website had been replaced by a message that simply read, in Times News Roman font, “This site is gone. It’s not worth the trouble.”

Part of the reason may have been that trolls fucked up their whole rating system. Since these people couldn’t be bothered to do any actual research for themselves, the whole site was crowd sourced. Trolls took to Ghetto Tracker and made sure that parts of town -- such as our own Park Slope -- were rated as “unsafe.” Either that or there’s a whole bunch of people intimidated to come here, presumably for fear of being robbed by over-privileged middle class folk.

But this week, both ghettotracker.com and goodpartoftown.com are back up! You can’t keep a good, racist/classist idea down. As of right now, goodpartoftown.com is a message board and ghettotracker.com seems to be living up to its original mission, complete with a map that will tell you Soho is an unsafe neighborhood. Unfortunately, Park Slope has been downgraded to an average-ghetto neighborhood.