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. All kinds of stuff goes on there. The cops crack down from time to time, he added, but that only reshuffles the deck and doesn't change anything. That is why, he said, only 17 percent of registered Kensington voters casted ballots in Philly's last mayoral election. If they were, people would be voting for them.