NEWSBREAK PORTLAND vs DIVISION STREET PORTLAND

Newsbreak Portland reveals the city to the world.

Maybe not the whole world, but the newsbreak app is working on that.

Trusted by 45M users and growing – the best local & breaking news source in the US, featuring local weather, alerts, deals, events and more.

What is this “and more” all about? Fear. It’s about fear, and here’s why:

These are the five leading stories on Newsbreak Portland:

4th victim in 24-hour string of homicides identified

1 in critical condition after car crashes into Clackamas Wing Stop

After a gun incident near Franklin High School, Portland police took 80 minutes to respond

Officials release new details in NE Portland deputy-involved shooting

FATAL VEHICLE VERSUS PEDESTRAIN CRASH ON HIGHWAY 99E IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY, OREGON

It’s Dangerous Out There

Let’s break it down: Newsbreak Portland reports an out of control city with guns and car deaths and police taking too long to get to work.

Does that look right to you? Is that your neighborhood?

If you don’t know one neighborhood from the next, Portland looks bleak to outsiders.

Why would a media giant with ‘forty five million users and growing’ skip the good parts of Portland?

Newsbreak Portland On Google Play and Apple Store

On google:

Small news makes a big difference! NewsBreak is your #1 local news app for current events, free live news, local weather alerts for your community. Download today to stay up to date on all things local!

Download NewsBreak today to stay informed on local news, national headlines, & world news!

Better informed, better life.

On apple:

Local news is different. NewsBreak believes that local news helps bring neighborhoods together around the unique stories they share in common. And only local, small news has the unique ability to meaningfully inform the decisions we make throughout the day.

Better Informed, Better Life On Division Street

Ask yourself: “Is a better life possible when you’re scared shitless about stepping outside?”

Will you be randomly murdered in Portland?

If you take a drive will some drug-crazy Portland degenerate crash into you?

Will Officer Friendly mistake you for who you called about and gun you down instead?

Reading the first five stories on Newsbreak Portland says you will if you’re reading from Estacada or Newberg.

Not so much if you’re reading all about it from 30th and Division.

“Portland is the Sodom and Gomorrah of Oregon and it’s only a matter of time before it will be destroyed by fire ands brimstone,” said a preacher yelling in his small church near Sandy in 1986.

I was there with my fiancé and four others. We were interviewing for a wedding official, and were the only people from Portland.

He didn’t get the gig, but we still got married.

Why does Portland Newsbreak sound like a screaming preacher of doom?

For their readers.

Has Portland Changed Since 1986? Have You Changed

The front page of Newsbreak Portland is sensationalism, following the tradition of the newsroom: “If it bleeds, it leads.”

If you see a bird’s eye view over Chicago, Los Angles, or NYC, and read news headlines as Portland got, you’d never want to visit. You’d be a stranger in a strange land.

And you’d feel vulnerable as hell, like you’re about to be executed by a drug cartel, have a confession beat out of you ‘downtown’, or die in a fiery car crash while the other driver runs off.

I lived in a few cities before Portland, notably Philadelphia and Brooklyn. If I had stayed there I would have found places I liked.

Since I lived there alone, I was extra cautious about where I was and who I was with. Why? Because my momma lived three thousand miles away.

Who was I going to call?

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By the time I got to Portland in my mid-twenties I was a seasoned urban dweller and Portland was a small town in comparison to the mega-cities. It felt just right then, and still does.

The key is who you know, and that takes time.

You won’t be invited into a beautifully preserved Division street home right away, shown in images here, but you can walk around the corner for a good time at the Bollywood Theater.

After that make plans for new places.

Portland Eater has it covered:

The Southeast Division Street neighborhood is one of Portland’s most formative food neighborhoods — a culinary hotspot boasting longstanding city favorites like Bollywood Theater and Kim Jong Grillin, as well as new kids on the block like Malka and Demarco’s. 

Eventually you’ll meet strangers, finds things in common, and gather in your comfort zone with good people.

Instead of viewing the world through the curtains in your front room, and Newsbreak Portland, make an effort to see things for yourself.

Do that and you’ll find life being lived and dreams coming true in the most unexpected places, like 82nd Ave.

That’s when you’ll know anything is possible.