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Finding a Used Tire--Taxi driver Horacio Tamayo scouts a vacant lot for some used tires to recondition for his cab. Thousands of tires are dumped illegally throughout Harlem.

Man With Asthma--Leroy Bruce, 58, receives treatment for asthma at Harlem's North General Hospital. His condition started last year and environmental factors are suspected.

Invisible Danger of Particulate Emissions--Nearby one of Harlem's four bus depots, children and adults are exposed to the invisible toxic emissions from a passing bus.

Fishing in the Hudson River--Jimmy Waldron fishes in the Hudson River despite the threat of fish contamination with PCBs.

Illegal Dumping--A sanitation worker cleans up debris that has been illegally dumped alongside a highway in Harlem.

Harlem From the South Bronx--Seen at sunrise from an abandoned lot in the South Bronx, Harlem's scarred landscape is reflected in the murky waters of the Harlem River.

Luis Comacho and Jordana Guzman wait on the 125th St. station in Harlem for the subway to take them to school.

The Fulton Mall in Brooklyn serves a largely Black clientele, but there are no black-owned business in the mall.

Black Hebrew-Israelites in New York proselytize their belief taht Black Amerians are the chosen people.

Protestors at the South African embassy in New York call for an end to apartheid and the release of all political prisoners.