Several houses have the windows covered with plywood.
Others no longer have a roof and vegetation is growing on the upper floors.
Once elegant, the brick-fronted townhouses on East North Avenue in Baltimore are now falling into disrepair.
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Some are still inhabited, but this district, like others, almost seems to have been struck by a cataclysm.
The few stores are abandoned, their storefronts stained with graffiti.
Sitting on the stairs, idle residents try to escape the summer heat.
At the crossroads, young people lean against a car from which the pulsations of a heavy rap escape.
A man staggers, hanging on a pole, drunk or drugged, and a wanderer pushes his life gathered in a supermarket cart.
One hour from Washington, Baltimore offers the spectacle of an America in crisis.
Crime hits record highs, making the city one of the most dangerous in the United States.
Drugs, whether illegal as
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