Sociologically, La Boca have always been a working class neighborhood. At one time, early in this century, La Boca was the site of preference among immigrants for dwelling. They were men coming into Argentina looking for work. The brothels were about the only places where the poor immigrants could see a woman. La Boca is still a working class neighborhood.
Some streets are badly light.
To identify the name of a street is sometimes difficult to do. There is a lot of animation in the streets after dark, adolescents playing in the streets. Policemen are patrolling the streets regularly on foot and by car. Caminito is a street in La Boca of Buenos Aires made exclusively for pedestrians. Caminito is a tourist attraction where local people are selling their representation of tango with colors on paper, fetching a price as high as the perception you have or they have of tango, in their minds.