Calitto Rotorris, 27, was born and grew up in the neighborhood. He describes his neighborhood as “real worse”  before with lot of drug related problems  and homicides, He says that the community services have changed the neighborhood in many ways.

Pam Jasin, 41, was born and raise in New York. She moved to North Philadelphia 22 years ago and has seen the neighborhood changed a lot. Now the neighborhood has better property, the store, and more.

Jose Perez, 22, works at the Cousin’s Supermarket. He sees the mixed cultures from the customers. However he thinks it’s time for him to get out of the “getto”.