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Philly Streets: Kensington
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Philly Streets: Kensington

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Kensington, a neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia, has become one of the largest open-air drug markets on the East Coast, and this film walks its blocks to show what that looks like up close. Abandoned factories and empty row houses frame streets where addiction plays out in public, and the camera lingers on the people living through it rather than statistics about it. The footage favors direct observation over narration, letting scenes of daily survival, encampments, and street-level transactions carry the story. It is a grim, unflinching look at urban decline and the opioid crisis as they intersect in one specific place, treating Kensington less as a symbol than as a real neighborhood with a history of industrial collapse behind its current state. The film does not offer solutions or policy argument; it stays close to what is visible on the ground, block by block.