I want this book! Judith Matloff and her husband purchased and renovated a Harlem brownstone years ago. Hilarity ensues when they realize they are living right next to a crack house and have a front yard view of the wholesale drug trade for the entire East Coast. I can sort of, kind of relate in a small way. We lived next to a drug dealer in Park Slope. If he wasn’t such a nasty, girlfriend beating bastard, we would’ve just ignored him. But he messed with the wrong neighbors. Oh, not us, the folks on the other side of him. But we joined in and got him out. So he could deal, threaten neighbors and beat up his girlfriend right around the corner.

Anyway, watch the video. Judith’s druggie neighbors are actually quite pleasant.

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