It’s a little past noon when Brian Guemey eases his battered brown and green Mitsubishi Sunset Runner through the intersection and onto some street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Brian’s heard this part of the city referred to as The Pit, and it’s easy to see why. The buildings are pretty decrepit, the streets are strewn with crap, and the streetlife has the look of chiller thriller go-go-go gangbangers.