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Bebe, 14, truly is the baby of Exchange Street. He symbolizes the very struggle of the children who are children of addicts. He is at the extreme of all neglected children, and has in front of this group hung himself before, just for fun.

Manuel Taylor says the only thing to do in Panik is drink, shoot and find SOME. Father Panik Village became so notorious, the police refused to respond to calls there. They would come only in life and death emergency and only en masse. In this…

Rose Ortiz, 72, raised eight children in Father Panik Village. She lost 2 to violence involving drugs, and one to AIDS, an intravenous drug user. Ortiz didn't want to leave her home of 35 years, but the complex was being closed. In her bedroom, a…

In the bathroom of McDonald's, Chris Garabedian nearly passes out as she waits for the effects of her newly injected speedball - a combination of heroin and cocaine. Feeling the effects, she lies back both exhausted and alone. The streets have…

While his mother buys drugs just outside their apartment, Chris Muskus displays his new kitten, an abandoned cat he found while wandering the streets himself one night. Chris has the misfortune of living in one of the biggest shooting galleries in…

Janice Furey weeps in hospital waiting room with her shooting hand bandaged from abscesses. Tears flow after she was told she had syphilis, and was confirmed that she was HIV-positive. Furey died within a year of an overdose in a cemetery next to…

not everyone could wait for the 'New' Bayview to be built. William Scarboro abandoned this migrant shack when his children took him out of Bayview to live in better conditions in Delaware. He left his coat and vest hanging on a door in his…

Brenda Bunting and new husband Cedric Latham do a slow dance to some Al Green music at the wedding reception.

Kelli Cofer, right, 16, came to Bayview with a Washington D.C. church youth group to hand out free toys for Christmas after they saw the story about the needy folks in Bayview in the local newspaper. Every child in Bayview you got at least three…

Earlier in the year, one of Bayview's most pressing problems was the poor water quality from its shallow hand pump wells. As Bayview's plight was publicized, the town got a grant and deeper wells were dug and the water quality improved. At a…