serious gangsters were. You only
went there if you needed to buy an
AK-47.
After Twentieth Avenue you hit
the Jukskei River, and on the far
side of that, across the Roosevelt
Street Bridge, was East Bank, the
newest, nicest part of the hood. East
Bank was where the government
had gone in, cleared out the
squatters and their shacks, and
started to build actual homes. It
was still low-income housing, but
decent two-bedroom houses with
tiny yards. The families who lived
there had a bit of money and
usually sent their kids out of the