In one harrowing scene, the cops confront a pair of crackheads, one of which blathers on about her two lost toddlers, telling the officers they need to find them right away.
"There are three or four crackheads on every block," said Angel Bongiovanno, the owner of Focacceria, a local restaurant.
They don't feel any of the wealth generated will be fed back in to the community in a way that will affect them; it's not going to trickle down to the people at the bottom of society who need help the most, the crackheads on the corner or people just struggling to get by.
You can hear the streets around you, you can almost smell the vendors selling dirty water dogs and stale pretzels, you can see the crackheads on the corner.
By traditional news standards, what Gawker did was transgressive every which way: it called a sitting mayor of the fourth-largest city in North America a crackhead based on a video that it said it had seen but did not possess.
When Lyrics Born, a 20-year hip-hop industry vet who raps and produces, first watched the show, he "went on an on-demand crackhead binge.
I never gave much thought as to why these two crackheads were on my block so often.
A gentleman named Harry, aka Black, aka Planet of the Apes (not trying to be racist, he looks like a skinny crackhead chimp), was on the phone when lightning struck the building and he got fried.
"Thanks 2 da crackhead down da block 4 shoveling da snow!
"La Sylphide" as a crackhead's dream, "Giselle" on the psycho ward, a "Swan Lake" colonized by male swans: these are just a few of the paraphrases (choreography adjusted to match) that dance audiences have had to learn to take in stride.
