Indianapolis: City Profile
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Urban analysis and overview of the geography of Indianapolis. I examine the downtown, neighborhood layouts, economy, major companies in the city, walkability, gentrification, food, and more.
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I had no idea THE KING was in town - there could have been parades, proclamations, press tours, etc.! Hope you enjoyed your stay.
Well the city did paint "You Are Beautiful" on a building in Fountain Square in anticipation of me visiting. At least that's the story I'm going with.
Speaking of The King--Elvis played his last concert in Indy!
I enjoyed the video. Thanks! A few additions:
1. I'm sure others have already mentioned that you left out Mass Ave.
2. Also, no mention of the War memorials. No city except DC has more war memorials. They add a rich artistic value to the city, especially the memorials along the canal and the Indiana World War Memorial.
3. Eagle Creek Park barely got a mention but as a birder and rower, it's one of the best among urban parks for both.
4. Don't miss lunch at City Market, just a couple of blocks east of the circle.
Indy really is an underrated city imo. For a large city, everything is really accessible and conveniently located. It is the perfect city for large sporting events and conventions with many underground connections between important venues. As you branch out from downtown the excitement wanes, but downtown Indy is one of the very best in the country!
Nope, lol. Like it better than Ft Wayne that’s fo sho
Downtown Indianapolis is one of the best??
I thought you were the other Mr. Obvious. :)
Medium sized city*
"large city" lmao
Kyle, have you considered doing a video laying out the regional boundaries of the US? (which states are Southern, which are Midwestern, etc).
As a Missourian I'd like to hear your takes; nobody around here can agree where we are
That topic is on my list of videos coming soon.
You're in the midwest
@@jesuschrist2616 I agree wholeheartedly, but not everyone here does
Missouri is a unique state. Geographically, Yes Missouri is Midwest. As someone who has traveled back and forth between Houston and Chicago dozens of times in 20+ years I will say that Missouri acts and feels like a “northern” southern state (Arkansas and Southern Illinois feel exactly the same to me ) more than what I deem as “Midwest” culturally like Chicago area, Wisconsin or Mich/Indiana. At Same time it’s a crossroads in the US because of where you are located so you pull in the Kansas and Iowa farming/Great Plains influence too. Big Difference if you are in SE MO vs NW part of state also near KC. It’s a beautiful state. I think Missouri and Arkansas are some of the most underrated beauty in the country with the “mountains” and uplift in the area. Way older than the Rockies - They were once 10,000ft tall!
@@JH-fb3mp Missourians who think they are the south are the worst Missourians. Except the boot heel. That as dirty south as it gets.
I love the people from Minnesota and Wisconsin who fancy themselves 'Midwesterners."
The same city planner who laid out the basic structure of the streets and neighborhoods of Indianapolis also did the same for Washington DC!
That's incredibly fascinating as I'm from DC and grew up in Indy.
Great video as always, Kyle. I've been attending the Indy 500 since 2012, and I hate to admit it, but I've rarely seen much else of Indy. Your video is an inspiration to make some extra time this Memorial Day. Fyi F1 hasn't raced at IMS since 2005. Annual calendar as of 2022 is 3 IndyCar races, the big one on the oval plus two on the road course, and now Nascar also races on the road course.
Wow I didn't realize it's been so long since F1 raced there. I've never seen a race at IMS but I've been in town the weekend that Nascar had the 400 there. Crazy scene at the bars that weekend. I'm sure it's even crazier and busier for the Indy 500. I'd be happy just seeing some time trials during May.
@@GeographyKing I’ve been to 25 Indy 500s. There is nothing like it in sports. It’s a bucket list item for sure.
dude you've only been to Speedway? come on lol at least tell me you've had Long's Donuts at some point
I am very impressed with your analysis of the different types of crime and what each means. Thank you. I never made that distinction before.
Nice video, a few comments:
1. Monument Circle is technically one block north of the center of the city's addresses.
2. Indy was instumental in the early jazz scene. Wes Montgomery was our most famous jazz musician but we also have Freddy Hubbard and Slide Hampton. It is true that we have lacked prominent contemporary musicians that are nationally known.
3. The NE side of town is probably more valuable than the NW. Geist Reservoir is often where our sports starts live.
4. The near north is not great but I don't think it's the most crime-ridden part of town.
5. We might not have light rail, but we did invest in bus rapid transit. I ride it occasionally when I'm heading downtown. It's pretty nice.
Thank you for all the info!
@number 5, yes, the pseudo-light rail with a bus.
The Sports stars mostly live in Fishers or Carmel.
Near north resident here, lived here 10 years, my neighborhood did not look like that picture lol. I walk my dog late at night, with headphones, generally do not worry about anything happening to me. While I do hear gunshots from time to time they always seem to be targeted incidents. I keep to myself and am left alone. That being said property value around me has exploded over the time I've lived here and overall I think it's getting much nicer.
Love the video. Just a correction, FedEx Express's largest hub IS in Memphis as well as it's headquarters. Indy is it's 2nd largest hub.
Thank you for the correction.
Once they build the new sorting facility which they are currently working on at the airport, Indy will be be bigger than Memphis.
Good overview of Indy and I appreciate the city reviews. Was disappointed you didn’t mention the different “cultural Paths” and Mass Ave (lots of gentrification, nightlife, local shops, bars, restaurants, and a renovated hotel that use to be a Coke Bottling plant)- but it’s hard to cover everything. Keep up the good work.
Yeah I definitely missed Mass Ave. But I'll be back in Indy the next time I drive to Detroit from TN. I'll check it out for sure.
@@GeographyKing if you do the Canal Walk again make sure to check out the 9/11 Memorial if you missed it. It has girders from the Twin Towers and the aesthetic mimics how those towers once dwarfed their surroundings. There’s also an eagle facing NYC on one of the girders.
Massachusetts Avenue is far more lively than Virginia Avenue
@@wmw3629 my thoughts exactly lmao I though for sure he was gonna talk about it right there
Who is out here in Indianapolis eating pork tenderloin sandwiches? Seems touristy. If I had to pick two "Indianapolis foods" i would go with sugar cream pie and longs donuts.
TESTAMENT's "The Legacy"! Thank you haha. I love this band. I've seen them a few times here and there (UK, Poland, Japan).
Excellent album
That caught my eye also. Practice is my favorite Testament album.
Look At The Lost Souls!!
I went to Indy 2 months ago. It was a cheap $64 flight from Boston so I said why not? Literally everyone I told asked me why I would go to in to Indianapolis and I just didn’t get it. It’s a major American city and a flight that cheap? It was such a great city i was really impressed with how clean it was and how much there was to do all so close together. I didn’t know about fountain square I’ll have to check it out next time I go
Man $64 is a deal.Last time I flew into Boston from IND I think I blew $300. Admittedly it was a last minute flight.
@@notthegoatseguy yeah it was a great deal. Check on allegiant airways if you ever wanna make a trip to Boston again. They do flights two days a week.
@@notthegoatseguy I looked into going to Boston from Indy by driving up north of Fort Wayne and catching an Amtrak train to Boston! It’s $54 one way which is sweet, but it does take 19 hours and 12 mins… that’s 1:20am to 8:32pm lol
yes, it is cheap to fly here. No one wants to come and give Indiana a chance. Thank you for coming to visit, glad you enjoyed your stay.
@@MsTwiththeTea1980 it's a flyover state its boring if you are young and wanting to go out and it has a small town feeling to it
More like this, please. Especially loved the idea of showcasing a local band.
A ban on light rail? What kind of weird thing is that.
Ive never seen the center circle, that is really cool
Yes, i love roundabouts
@@StaackeR if you love roundabouts Carmel Indiana a north suburb of Indianapolis has the most roundabouts in the US. The mayor fell in love with them on a UK trip. There was a recent NY Times article on them
@@timmmahhhh Is that why? I literally visited Carmel downtown the other week and felt like I was on one of those spinning machines from going from roundabout to roundabout to roundabout and didn't understand why they'd put them all together like that lol
@@mercy5004 Yes you were definitely in Carmel! May your stomach soon recover from all of the centrifugal forces it was subjected to. Joking aside there are some great benefits to roundabouts. Think about it, if there were traffic lights here one direction would be waiting for them; having the roundabout if there's no traffic you don't have to stop so that saves time and fuel from idling. While the upfront cost is a lot it eliminates traffic lights and the energy needed to operate them. Next it forces you to slow down and significantly reduce his collisions so no more getting t-boned. And architecturally they're very cool in that you can put sculptures in them, as elaborate as Monument Circle if they wish. We also see the world more from a Google maps perspective as well so they have an aerial appeal too. The major highways US 31 and State Road 431 the streets with interchanges are crazy because yes both ramp intersection points have a roundabout so you get two of them right off the bat.
I went to college in Indy! I learned more about it in this video than I did living there for 4 years 😂 Thanks for this video!
I used to live near broad ripple as a kid, and it’s a really nice place to live and have your kids grow up in. Even though it’s more for young adults, it’s still well set up for families of all types. I remember being able to hop on my bike and ride anywhere into broad ripple and along the Monon Trail. Fun times.
yes, i would agree i love going to Broad Ripple, Indiana, There is always something to do. So many restaurants and small shops. I love it.
We didn't go to a great many places in Indianapolis, but we did enjoy walking around Broad Ripple and going to a great Indian restaurant there. I'm glad you're saying something about public transportation in the cities you're profiling.
Boy, I enjoyed that! I went to Kyle's channel and searched 'city overview' and found how I'll be spending the next few nights. What an interesting an insightful view you provide us, Kyle. Thank you!
Nicely done! You're dead on right with the pork tenderloins and sugar cream pie. The tenderloins have become an art form here.
I am from Indianapolis and I love me a good pork tenderloin and some sugar cream pie. yummy
Great video, Kyle! I've never been to Indianapolis, despite growing up in Ohio. I enjoyed the way you ended this video by playing music from a local band while showing images of some of the public art and sights. Happy New Year!
Thanks! Happy New Year!
Well hey. I was binge watching your stuff last night and I live in indianapolis
Geography King + Indianapolis Content = 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩
I believe one of the northern suburbs has the most roundabouts per Capita of any city in the US, kinda interesting
It's Carmel. Some of the roundabouts of sculptures at the center. You should look up "Morning Sun" sometime. It's... something. They claim to have the most roundabouts of any city period, not just per capita. Imagine Eagleton from Parks & Rec, but with a mayor who has a weird obsession with roundabouts. That's Carmel.
Carmel is one of the best cities to live in.
Beautiful neighborhoods, dining, water park and linear parks.
As someone not from Carmel, by elsewhere in the Indy metro (Lawrence), I’m duty bound to dislike Carmel, particularly their singular, obscenely large high school of 5,400 students
We have family in Carmel and visit regularly. It's an awesome place to bicycle, especially along the Monon. My wife constantly complains about the roundabouts.
@@TanookiOshawott64 I lived in Carmel for five years and passed by that school many times. Just looking at it, it always gave me the vibe that it was the kind of brutal, overcompetitive academic environment common to a lot of wealthy neighborhoods (like those commonly associated with Silicon Valley) that produced a lot of burnt-out, and occasionally suicidal, students.
I was not surprised at all when students from Carmel High School appeared in "Race to Nowhere", a documentary covering these exact topics.
And Babyface might be more of a producer now, but he had quite a run as performer in the 80s/90s....
I've lived in Indianapolis and the surrounding area (currently live in Avon, a western suburb) almost my whole life. This is an excellent summary of the city imo. You hit all the major high points but didn't sugar coat the not-so-good parts. I've enjoyed your content for some time now. Thanks for presenting my hometown in your usual thoughtful and balanced fashion. Cheers.
Thanks for this! I'm originally from a small town nearish Fort Wayne, but lived in Indy a few years ago during college. The bus system was definitely not the best, but it was my bread and butter of getting around since I couldn't drive at the time and lived almost at the very north edge of town.
Having visited some of the less... tourist friendly areas, you do see a lot of rundown places, which in hindsight makes sense given that poverty rate. I used to take the bus to this international market on the west side of town and on the way there I distinctly remember areas feeling so rundown and almost like a ghost town in parts. Parking lots with weeds growing in the cracks, abandoned strip malls, and it felt like you could walk for 15 minutes and still be surrounded by nothing but liquor stores and payday lenders... And yet other areas like Castleton and Fountain Square and the downtown area were fantastic to walk around.
Also can confirm, the children's museum is as awesome as it looks! I also remember being just absolutely amazed by the Indiana World War Memorial - it's that huge building with lots of stairs sitting on the opposite side of the park from the public library. The inside is just gorgeous
I try to take all of my out of town guests to the Indiana World War Memorial. It really is incredible inside, yet many lifelong Hoosiers I know have never stepped foot there.
@@behard2 yeah, even having grown up in Indy I never really realized what that building was until now. This vid just makes me happy to be from here :)
@@behard2 Honestly, I only happened to go inside on pure accident... Me and a few friends were at Pride one summer and, on the verge of all of us getting heat stroke, we went inside. Two things I learned about the Indiana War Memorial that day: 1. it exists and is very much worth a look around, and 2. it has simply fantastic air conditioning
Hey Kyle! Another awesome video! Never been to the Midwest US myself, but one day I'm gonna have to check it out. Please consider doing an urban analysis of Toronto!!
I haven't been to Toronto in many years, but I loved it when I visited.
Lived in Indianapolis for about 25 years now and I say you’ve nailed it. Yeah, surprisingly Indy doesn’t have a whole lot of big name musicians for its size. We have Mark Battles - rapper, Haste the Day - metal, and lots of blues and jazz players
Kyle’s reviews make me want to visit those places. I hope there’s one about Las Vegas, we want to visit it soon.
I like the song at the end!
This is perfect timing for me! I’ll be heading to Indianapolis this weekend for a certain football game on Monday so this is super helpful! Keep up the great work and Roll Tide!!
Make sure to check out Mass Ave near downtown. There’s a development called Bottleworks. He didn’t touch on it in the video but it’s actually the best part of downtown now
Say, that doesn't look too shabby! One city I have never been to. Honestly though, Kyle, I'd probably watch a video of a rural outhouse tour if you made it. Thanks for all you do!!!
I like how you did the local music video at the end with pics. Really cool idea for your videos!
Testament!!!
Top of the mornin’
Great video! You do an amazing job of highlighting the really interesting aspects of cities. Also, the mall looks really interesting!
Sadly, the mall was great the first 10 years. It’s gone totally downhill. Downtown retail is a total disappointment.
When I think of Indianapolis, I think of the Indy 500. The Greatest Race in the World.
To me Indianapolis has always been the most boring and bland large city in the US, but I always rave about how nice the downtown area is. For not having an overly large metro area the downtown is packed with restaurants and stores and is very pleasant to walk around in. It’s pretty nice.
The downtown is very nice and far less bland than 40-50 years ago. It still has a lot of historic buildings among the modern too.
Indianapolis: at least we're not Kansas City!
@@zorilla0 I actually find Kansas City far more exciting and interesting than Indianapolis haha.
I used to always travel to St. Louis to get my city fix, but have switched to Indy in the last few years. I love flying out of their airport. Also HGTV chose the city for its 2021 Urban Oasis home giveaway. My husband and I went on the hunt for it last weekend.
I didn't know Indiana had a ban on light rail. The Southshore line from South Bend to Chicago must have been grandfathered in.
Yeah, it's wild to straight up ban it. It has so much potential if implemented properly.
The South Shore Line isn’t affected because the ban actually targets central Indiana specifically. The State government often acts adversarially towards Indy. Even the modest transit plan Indy is allowed to pursue has been constantly meddled with by the state.
The South Shore line is commuter rail, not light rail
Indy downtown is nice but the rest of the city is country.
TestAment!!! Kyle you are a bad ass
Please do Des Moines or Iowa!
Great video, you more or less nailed it. Some other great places to check out around town are Long's Donuts, The Tamale Place, Steer Inn, Luna Records, Square Cat Vinyl, The Mousetrap, The Hi-Fi, and the NCAA Hall of Champions.
student here 👋
I personally love indianapolis. having lived in multiple large cities it really is accessible and safe.
Indy, as well as the whole state of Indiana is boring as hell.
Jazz greats Freddie Hubbard, J.J. Johnson, and Wes Montgomery all came from Indy.
Most people say Indiana means Land of the Indians… but Indiana is actually named after the goddess of the crossroads, Diana. Hints our state’s motto, crossroads of America.
Awesome video! I was born and raised in Indy and love that you enjoyed your time here :) also excited to see the shout out for SM Wolf!
This is crazy timing! I was there yesterday. I saw a movie and ate dinner at the Garage Hall in the Bottleworks District. Drove back to KC this morning.
That is a drive indeed. I did that but the other way coming from worlds of fun and silver dollar city
@@TanookiOshawott64 howdy fellow Survivor fan!
Light rail is banned?? That's so extremely bizarre, but really the whole state is weird.
Good to view a positive video on Indianapolis!
One other hipster neighborhood is along another diagonal street north of Virginia Avenue: Massachusetts Avenue or Mass Ave. It's even more developed and they recently converted an old Art Deco Coca Cola plant into a luxury hotel. It also connects downtown to the Monon Trail. Also used to have a great Jazz venue called The Metro, not sure if that's still around.
South side has some good restaurants, shout out to Egg Roll Number 1 off of 465 and Emerson Ave, they have great pho and Hana Japanese Fusion Sushi & Grill off of Emerson Ave and Southport
Long's Bakery across town but also on Southport Rd, a great street to drive and the Mocha Nutt down the road, cute coffee shop with different selections.
video suggestion:
a ranking of state governor’s mansions (for the states that give governors their own houses)
You mean the ones they live in overseas? LOL
Yeah, that's a pretty good idea! 👍🏼😎✌🏼
The IMA is a fantastic art museum.
King Ribs has several locations; good BarBQ. Same with Hubbard and Cravens for coffee, with Sobro and Morning Sky being my favorite coffees of all time. Steer Inn near eastside Irvington is a good, unique diner. Nice craft brewery scene; FourDayRay and SunKing are two worth a mention.
Maintain situational awareness, cuz he wasnt lying about the high crime rates.
Irvington in October is really fun
Add to everything already in the video, Brown County State Park isn’t too far south and it has great hiking, biking, and scenery.
Unbiased opinion about Indianapolis from a Californian that lived there: if you’re looking for overall quality of life, it’s actually an excellent city (especially for raising a family). Its Achilles heel is that it lacks the “wow” factor that comes with other major cities in the US
I live in Speedway! You did a good job representing Indiana.
Thank you!
I grew up just 5 miles north of the track and spent a lot of time on the west side when I was younger. The Main Street is 100% improved and is such a lovely addition to Speedway.
@@GeographyKing good thing you didn’t mention the politics though. Ugh. 😆
I now really want to check out Indy. Great video!
Thank you!
Come on down and visit us in Indy.
I wish there were more of these urban analysis videos. But I value how much you research and experience the city before talking about it. Keep it up man.
Another part for the airport is the midfield terminal is the first in the US designed post 9/11.
Best airport IN THE WORLD.
Would love one of these for Cincinnati
Hey Kyle, you should do a feature on New Orleans.
New Orleans is a dump, pure wasteland.
That circle is a fine example of how cars and pedestrians can safely interact without aid of stop signs and thermoplastic markings. And it was created in the late 1970s! Outlawing light rail? Huge red flag about the politics of that state. And I'm surprised the huge ring and spokes of interstate highways was not mentioned here or in your recent video about urban interstates.
It’s not a statewide light rail ban, it specifically targets Central Indiana. The state government acts adversarially towards Indy.
Great video, do note, Braoadripple is an absolute crap show now a days. (edit: and most people are now spending their evenings in downtown Indy)
IMPD has a nice little profit scheme where they arrest over served patrons in broad-ripple year after year instead of the city holding specific bars accountable for over serving
(instead of increasing cost of liquor licenses given quantities of arrests made in a year, the state allows officers to work as doormen at the bar, making the city money even when they are off duty).
Example: at Rock-Lobster, because they hire IMPD as their off/on-duty Bouncers, Every toss out is legally trespassed from the bar, and is most often immediately then considered publicly intoxicated once they are outside and are then arrested, and assaulted physically and then financially.
You should do a state government website ranking, by accessibility or ease of use
Nicks Chili Parlor!!! Check it out! Best chili in the world!!! BETTER THAN SKYLINE THATS RIGHT OHIO
I grew up in Indy and while it's cool to visit, I spent my childhood dreaming of leaving. Now that I've been away for a decade in the southwest, I want to move back to the Midwest...close to Indy but not in Indy.
Monument circle doesn't separate the roads north and south......
That would be a block south on Maryland.
I have lived in the Indy metro area most of my life, and unless you are within walking distance of downtown, there isn’t much to do. Parks outside of the downtown area aren’t that great (unless you go north where the money is) and it is hard to feel safe (outside of a vehicle) when you travel too far east, west, or south. I would highly recommend staying inside at night unless you are in one of the main areas of bar hopping. That is where police presence is highest. Otherwise you may see a mugger around the corner (this could just be me being overly cautious, or the fact that I have known people to be mugged, weapon pulled on them at night when venturing outside of the main party areas).
Urban analysis series? Nashville would be a good one.
Totally off topic….but I hope Kyle the “GEOGRAPHY KING” SEES THIS…It would be cool if you did a CITY vs CITY battle royale of all the 14 NFL playoff teams!! That will be finalized this Sunday in week 18 of the regular season. HIT 👍🏼 IF YOU AGREE
Great video as always Kyle. Promoting a cool local band while showing those images was a really nice touch. Would be a cool signature way to end your videos, in my humble opinion.
I've tried to do just that in other videos, but UA-cam makes it difficult. Even with written permission from the artists, I often am not able to upload a video with music as UA-cam flags it as copyright infringement. There are workarounds but I'm not trying to stir the pot.
@@GeographyKing I hear ya, it's a shame and I am sure the bands aren't happy about the run-around you're getting for trying to do them a favour
I lived in Indy for 3 years a few years back. The best way I could describe it is that it has a smattering of pretty much everything you would want from a city its size, but not in a cohesive way. I found that there were a lot of traditional events, but if you didn't live there your whole life, you just wouldn't know about them and that can be a pretty non-inclusive environment. Most of the people I met there, who were longtime residents, will tell you that Indy had made a lot of progress in the previous 20 years. My impression was that it got stuck there. Socially it has an extremely rural attitude. It's like the city moved forward, but the people didn't know how to transition with it. I also wondered what "coming a long way" meant as pretty much anywhere you went felt run down. There really weren't a lot of areas I felt completely safe in.
That being said, I met quite a few good natured down to earth people who are quite content with where they are and what they have. "Who'd a thunk it?"
At 7:51 Mark the Beautiful Large 🏠 Home is actually on Geist Reservoir on the North East side of the City. Note: Geist Reservoir stretches into Marion, Hamilton and Hancock Counties
Smart they permanently closed a portion of Georgia St. In California they’re copying that trend.
I stopped at exactly at the 3:08 mark after what was probably the 10th 'Downtown'. If you're going to write out and monologue through an entire script, for the love of your viewers, please consider an editor on future projects.
Having lived in Indianapolis for nine years, I am surprised to learn they have a culinary identity other than square pizzas, lemon slices in water, mispronouncing non-Anglo food names and ingredients, and asking "...is that spicy?"
Walking downtown is pretty crazy be wary. People literally cross whenever. Broad ripple is the cool hip area in the north but everywhere else sucks around the city and is really rough except beech grove and fountain square.
Cool cool sir very interesting. Thank you for sharing it with us today sir. God bless and your family and i hope you and your family have a Happy New Year.....🙏❤🙏❤🙏🙂😊🙂
Very surprised you did not mention Gen Con in this video.
Nicely done. Indianapolis is a well-kept secret, in my view. Friendly, clean and welcoming town. Vibrant downtown. Wide range of affordable housing options in the city and suburbs on all sides. Experiences all four seasons (not just the HEAT and humidity of where I’m writing from in the Deep South). Good airport. Easy access to Chicago and Louisville. Lots to like here.
The only time I've been to Indy was to see Phil 'n' Dylan (Phil Lesh & Friends and Bob Dylan), then a three-nighter by Phish at Deer Creek. That would have been summer tour, 2000, I believe. Good times, good times.
Deer Creek- that’s what the locals will still call it- LOL… Now it’s Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center… but it’s a great local venue for outdoor concerts- although technically I believe that’s in Noblesville (another suburb town)- Indy has lots of them these days…
Wes Montgomery is from Indianapolis! He's a pioneering jazz guitarist, way too much for me to get into now. Wes was someone John Coltrane wanted to hire and Jimi Hendrix sought to imitate.
I'm going there with my wife next month. She won an award for her job, and wanted to know what the city brought.
FedEx moves more cargo through MEM, though the IND hub is very busy
I wish there were more safe areas closer to downtown without having to pay the gentrification prices. So many beautiful historic homes and neighborhoods have either been flipped to boring modern atrocities, or left to crumble and become condemned. I've been here my whole life, my parents actually met at the Slippery Noodle in the early 90s, and I work in the Broad Ripple village! I won't say where publicly but you probably walked by it when you were there, or maybe even stopped in! Also there was this great indie rock band from here called Margot and the Nuclear So and So's. I don't see myself in Indy forever because of a lot of its flaws, but videos like this remind me that there are still a lot of good things here.
Yeah I moved to indy a few years ago and had to move away from downtown (now I'm around the Eagle Creek Park, which is fun but also probably not my forever place) due to the price and crime. Saw a woman shove her mugger in front of a car (literally outside of my ground floor apartment windows), and a man get ganged up on and then thrown into a van right as I was about to enter the building (gave witness statements in both), with another incident of a woman and her daughter being carjacked behind the building, and an active shootout between drunk party guests in a different hall....after that I was like 1200 a month for an apartment is too much to deal with all this.
But honestly I felt much safer actually in the streets of downtown (especially around monument circle) than I did on the street in front of my downtown apartment. With all that, however, I did and still do love living here and especially the people I've met along the way.
Looking to try to hit Greenwood since a lot of the people I've met here reccommended it for someone who likes a quiet home life within reach of city lol.
I suspect that Rolls-Royce factory used to be Allison as well.
Awesome modern homes, I completely disagree with you on this one. Young people really enoy these types of homes.
I've been to Indy twice and enjoyed both visits. It's one of those cities that doesn't seem as big as it actually is and is easy to get around. You covered most of what we did other than the zoo, which is pretty nice. The only negative we had was Indy is it is the only place I've tried White Castle and I thought it was pretty nasty.
It's $3 for 3 hours at the center circle mall parking garage. Parking is cheap asf
Hella informative! Super helpful stuff
As a Local Musician it is hard to see musicians just because the city itself does not really care about their local artist, unless if it is mainstream music. Local artist barely gets pay and they do not get the exposure they deserve.
I've lived here 20 years and thought that was an excellent overview! Our public transit struggles, but the recent bus rapid transit lines are a step in the right direction. Mass Ave. and other parts of the near eastside are worth a mention. Kurt Vonnegut! But I see you included a mural of him. The Zoo is a highlight and Salesforce is a major player, companywise. Just minor additions. Overall a very accurate portrayal.
The Red Line? LOL, what a joke.
I loved my years living in Indy.
That pork tenderloin looks like German Schnitzel on a bun.