North End, Detroit

North End, Detroit Northend, Detroit
Cultural enclave and neighborhoods
Little Rock Baptist (formerly Central Woodward) Church, a historic building on the western boundary of the North End
Country	United States
State	Michigan
County	Wayne
City	Detroit
Time zone	Eastern Standard Time (North America) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	Eastern Daylight Time (North America) (UTC-4)

The North End, sometimes written Northend, is a neighborhood in central Detroit, Michigan. It is located along the Woodward Corridor, an avenue stretching from Downtown to Pontiac that is often referred to as the city's main street. It is a mixed neighborhood with some very good housing, for example, on Arden Park Boulevard, but also large tracts of low income, and as of 2014, abandoned housing.

The North End's boundaries are generally defined as East Grand Boulevard to the south, Woodward Avenue to the west and I-75 (Chrysler Freeway) to the east. While its northern border is sometimes defined as Euclid Street, more generally it extends to the border of Highland Park, between Webb/Woodland Streets.

The North End was originally part of Hamtramck Township, but was annexed by the City of Detroit in 1891. Along with the rest of Detroit, it experienced a cultural and economic boom in the 1920s and 1930s, due to the success of the automotive industry, and the district continued to experience growth. Many Motown musicians came from the North End, including Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, the Four Tops and Aretha Franklin.

The neighborhood began to see an economic downturn in the 1950s. I-75 was built in 1959, dividing the North End from the city center and also destroying the African American neighborhoods of Paradise Valley and Black Bottom. Marygrove College professor Frank D. Rashid has noted that Detroit's vibrant entertainment district Paradise Valley had eventually stretched as far as the North End.