People always wonder why I’m reluctant to talk about what it was like growing up as a poor kid in nyc. Now I can tell them to take a walk down the same street I lived on, when I was a kid, and tell me if this is something you would want to chit chat about... http://80s.nyc/#show/40.6931/-73.9412 these empty lots often contained dead animals and people.

Living in nyc in the 80’s was tough on children.