Harm City

“Harm City” is the perhaps inevitable variant of Baltimore’s nickname, “Charm City.” It implies a charmless Baltimore that’s full of crime.
 
 
 
22 February 1992, Baltimore (MD) Sun, pg. 1A:
In recent crime spree, city’s image was victim, too;
Is “Charm City” becoming “Harm City”?
     
Baltimore (MD) Chronicle (May 3, 2005)
POLITICAL MYTHS & SOCIAL TRUTHS:
O’Malley, Ehrlich and Steele Get Kudos, But Blacks Don’t Benefit
by Rodney Foxworth
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Baltimore, casually referred to by many of its denizens as either “Harm City” or “the City that Bleeds” (as opposed to the government-preferred “Charm City” and “the City that Reads”), has failed its youth for years, and continues to do so. 
 
New York (NY) Times 
The New Season | TV
For ‘The Wire,’ Rap That’s Pure Baltimore
By JON CARAMANICA
Published: September 10, 2006
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Inspired by the attention now being paid to their city and their work, the Darkroom producers are at work on a second volume of “Hamsterdam,” as well as a documentary about the city’s rap scene. In a dark pun on Baltimore’s nickname of Charm City, they are calling it “Harm City Exposed.”