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My street, Ivy Street, is dubbed as “crack dealer alley”. Teenage boys sell crack here. There are shootings every month. They vandalize homes and fences. Police patrol several times a day and make busts every week. There are fights. Homeless people sleep in abandoned cars and on the street.

   
 

Photographs by Deborah Gardiner