Commuters mix with drug users on 125th Street in Harlem where several major transit lines converge.
"Thousands of people walk along 125th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues each day and most do not linger. Commuters race to catch trains to Westchester, climbing up to the elevated Metro-North tracks. Others hurry down to the subway, bound for Midtown Manhattan or the Bronx. They pass through a scene that conjures up all the worst stereotypes of urban disorder: closed storefronts, litter, public drug use, people nodding out. But on a deeper look, the block also reveals an ecosystem filled not just with despair, but fortitude and empathy, too. Drug dealers. Drug users. Teachers. Doctors. Counselors. Police officers. ... Every borough in the city has a place like this one, where urban woes seem to cluster. In the Bronx, it’s the commercial hub around 149th and Third Avenue. In Queens, parts of Jackson Heights. ..."
Some stores have not survived the rough conditions of East 125th Street, while others have.
No comments:
Post a Comment