Here, defeated-looking prostitutes and pumped-up bouncers stand in doorways, drug dealers skulk in alleyways, and drunks make slow and unsteady progressions along the pavement.
There was always gossip at the water cooler about what office people wouldn't change the water cooler when it was empty horrible people who would pretend not to notice and skulk away, like they'd just doored a Benz in the parking lot.