"I was lookin' for Burger King and I didn't know how far it was in a crowed full of Wendy's; story of my day right now."
"My name is Jackie and I'm one of the old school people from Sandtown. I was born in Baltimore and used to live up there on Harlem Ave and folk lived there and it used to be fun and we would all pitch in. And it wasn't all that stuff we see today. The neighborhood was good, the old people, the young people, everyone pulled together."
"What!? Hi, wanna know about this neighborhood? We live here, this is Biddle and Harford Avenue, okay, my name is Carl and Dee and we been around here and we been here all our life. My fifty-eighth birthday is next month.
I like the feel of the neighborhood from what it was to what it is now. It's much better because the trouble that used to be around here is no longer here, it's a much relaxed neighborhood now. If you wanna know something say something."
"Each year since the community was torn down across the street we try to get everyone back together like a family reunion. The Lafayette family reunion; people get a chance to hug each other, be with each other, and eat for free, and that's the words of Vice-President Milburn. 'Bout three to four o'clock it'll be bumpin'."
"My name is Shirley Dendy and I'm at Guilford Avenue for 16 years. It's a great neighborhood and I raise my grandsons and great-grandsons here. It's a very convenient and I work right around the corner at the Greenmount Senior Center; it's a Korean Center and they are wonderful people."
"Just got off of work, come to the store, got a soda, and will go home. Decent weather today. Highlandtown, good up-and-coming neighborhood, fixing it up. Definitely a lot better than ten years ago."