Unfortunately, places like these still exist. Read 'The Corner' by David Simon (creator of The Wire and Treme) if you're interested in a more modern take on th

Unfortunately, places like these still exist. Read 'The Corner' by David Simon (creator of The Wire and Treme) if you're interested in a more modern take on the ghetto. Take home message: the war on drugs in its current form is not working and the side effects are places like this, completely cut off from normal society, almost completely out of reach outside of an economic revival (like happened in Harlem).