Anything but scripted, anything but festive, and anything but smiley-faced for the TV cameras. It's 24-hour work, really, because you always doing something on the side. You could call the corner of Kensington and Lehigh Avenues a one-stop shop in the neighborhood economy. A heroin detox billboard hangs in front of a bridge for the subway line. Underneath that bridge, prostitutes and drug dealers transact their business, which they tout on the corner to lure customers.
People sell crack because they're broke - It comes out of survival.
Prostitution comes from poverty. Just off Kensington Ave. At the abandoned and dilapidated Schmidt's Brewery, some of the people that used to work there, live there now. People live in there, many kids go in there. It's dangerous, things are falling apart.