Under the Nails

My new home is also a city on the bay. Baltimore is not an easy place. It takes caution, curiosity, and, occasionally, modest bravery to begin to understand and become more of a local in this challenging town. Baltimore has been captured in press by The Corner and on TV by Homicide. The most enduring image of the City to me, however, is the row house. In the newly gentrifying areas they are status symbols (positive ones); a few blocks away they are frightening and omnipresent reminders of an equality chasm.