“Do you live in this neighborhood?”

“Yeah, I moved here from Nicaragua when I was 14 and have been here my whole life.”

“Has the neighborhood changed much since you’ve been here?”

“Oh yeah, in 1972 the milkman would bring milk in glass bottles to your doorstep and leave them. And no one would touch them. Now…forget about it. People will kill you here on the street for $5. Sometimes they think you have something and they kill you, and then they realize you have nothing.”

“Why do you think everything changed?”

“Drugs. It’s drugs. Too much drugs. But what are you gonna do? Time changes things. Some people say, ‘The world…the world has changed.’ The world hasn’t changed. People’s attitude has changed.”