Various shots of gritty New York City: Shots of urban rooftops. Shots of ghetto streets in Harlem. Trash piled up on street. Overhead view of a desolate area in the Bronx. A subway car rolls by an abandoned building in the Bronx. Camera pans across ghetto buildings. Camera shoots from POV of a driver speeding through the streets. Traffic light changes from red to green. Subway passes by the station stop. Black man picks through a pile of bricks. Street sign: 125th street. Harlem building with sign Apollo Togs. Harlem pedestrians. Exterior Roseland dance hall. Marquee announcing the resident performer Johnny Mulay. Sign: Don't Walk flashing. Porno theater marquee. The South Bronx in early 1970s (in bad shape). Polluted water under Kosciuszko Bridge. Traffic congestion on Park Avenue. Ghetto. Two black teen boys talk in garbage-strewn lot. Wrecking ball crushes wal.l Black teen boy walks in littered lot. CU black teen boy with corn-row hair .Tenement windows. People wait to board graffiti-covered train. Black kids in housing project courtyard. Drive through ghetto neighborhood with graffiti (PREMIUM FOOTAGE). Aerials of Cross-Bronx Expressway. Burned out Bronx buildings. Assorted clips of ghettos, bad neighborhoods, housing projects, drugs, drug deals: Drive by rundown strip mall, public housing project; Police car drives down street; Undercover surveillance video of drug deal; Inner city, drug deal, kids play basketball; Guardian Angels holding sign: "Crackdown on Crack!"