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Ordinary people and life in the South Bronx with its crowded living conditions and poverty.
00:01:30 Bird’s eye view of the 3rd Ave El train cutting through the urban density of the Bronx borough of New York.
00:03:13 3rd Ave El train rumbling down the tracks in the South Bronx borough of New York. Passenger POV from the moving train as commercial buildings, neighborhoods and tenements flash by. Traveling motion footage is inter-cut with imagery of families living in crime ridden low income housing projects. Urban decay.
00:04:30 El Train pulls into the station and screeches to a halt as commuters wait on the platform. Eye-level view of bustling street with cars, shops, boards and posters. Uptown information signs. Diverse people of varied ages and ethnicities mingle. Focus upon a black man smoking, elderly, smartly-dressed white woman, black woman carrying a baby, white cop on a street corner. Sense of ten