N.J., may be a portrait of urban despair. But one neighborhood in this downtrodden city is slowly coming back to life.
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Federal Street in East Camden is lined with taquerias, money transfer shops, and grocers selling chili peppers and prickly pear cactus. Competing music stores pump out a cacophony of Mexican pop songs, and strings of pennants from recent grand openings form a canopy over the sidewalk. Locals have begun to call the area Little Mexico.
It wasn’t always like this.
“Mostly that was all burnt down — crack houses, people just living in there, selling drugs,” says Fabian Muniz, owner of Changarro Jr., an Internet café and electronics shop on Federal.
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