This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty, prostitution and urban anthropology in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ————————- Sonya and Eric: Hunts Point, Bronx. Courtesy of Chris Arnade. Sonya’s going to court today to see [...]

This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty, prostitution and urban anthropology in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ————————- In response to the newly-released US 2013 National Drug Strategy (PDF), I’ve written a portrait of those [...]

This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty and prostitution in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ————————- Takeesha. Photo courtesy of Chris Arnade. Just before Christmas, Takeesha got a new apartment, one just across the expressway [...]

This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty and prostitution in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ————————- Last week, Chris and I visited a crack house, Diana and John’s apartment. Here’s a 10-minute look inside, at [...]

This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty and prostitution in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ————————- Addicts, by nature, lead lives as vagrants of some description to cope — in search of a new doctor [...]

This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty and prostitution in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ————————- In Hunts Point, I’m struck by the judgment pervading the streets — the lengths to which people speak against [...]

This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty and prostitution in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. Diana, Hunts Point. Photo courtesy of Chris Arnade. Diana angled against collapsed cardboard at 11 p.m. a few feet away [...]

This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty and prostitution in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ———- A heroin addict steps over mirror shards in seek of the far side of the enclave, crooks his elbow, [...]

This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty and prostitution in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ———- Each year, about 100,000 people return to New York City communities from the city jails; another 25,000 return from [...]

This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty and prostitution in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ———- In Hunts Point, Bronx, K2 sidles alongside adolescent sex workers and those in their early 20s, those who rely [...]