Welfare hotels and brothels dotted the neighborhood, and there were crackheads in the lobby.
I remember that when my agent told me there was this show about crackheads, at first I was, like, 'You're fired!
Any New Yorker could tell they were crackheads.
"I knew what she was doing and it hurt me because me and my friends used to joke about other people's parents who were crackheads," he said.
The neighbours think we're crackheads but none of us are doing any drugs.
"There was nobody protesting when our windows got smashed out, or when we got firebombed by crackheads, or when me and my customer's vehicles got broken into.
"There was barbed wire; next to it was a bodega — they threw out their refrigerator and freezer, and it became a place where crackheads went and smoked crack.
First there was Crackhead Jones, wiry and crazy-eyed and jittery, trembling as he entered the store.
"There are three or four crackheads on every block," said Angel Bongiovanno, the owner of Focacceria, a local restaurant.
There is nothing romantic about being a crackhead and a drunk — low-bottom addiction is its own burlesque that needs no snarky annotation.
There were rumors that our FOS was a crackhead, and one of the enumerators saw her walking out of a well-known crack house.
