I've heard it said that if you value your life, you'll avoid any large city's MLK Blvd.
That's what I was told too, by a Realtor no less. I used to travel all over the country to lots of different cities. I was told that if while driving around or lost you wind up next to anything named Martin Luther King, an apartment, a civic center, a boulevard, a statue, anything, GET THE HELL OUT! Because you have somehow wound up in the wrong part of town. Only bad things are going to happen here.