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When I first came down into the tunnel,
it looked dangerous, man.

It was lookin' real dangerous,
'cause even in the daytime it was dark.

And, like, I was scared.

I said, "Somewhere down the line, it
can't be bad as it is up top."

Because out in the street,
you had kids fuckin' with you.

You had the police
fuckin' with you.

I mean, anybody can walk by you while you're sleeping
on a bench and bust you in the head.

At least down in the tunnel,
you ain't gotta worry
about that.

'Cause ain't nobody
in their right mind
gonna come down there.

So you ain't got to worry
about nobody comin' down there
messin' with you.

'Cause they're not.

They gonna be too scared
to come in there.

But to me, once you get past your fears,
the first or second night--

See, after that, man,
you adjust.

You'd be surprised what the human mind and
the human body can adjust to.

Tommy.
What?

Damn, man, I'm tired.

I'm tired, yo.

Give out.

Mmm.

I could sleep
for about two or three--

I guess about
two or three more hours.

I don't feel like getting up.

Mmm.

Shit. It's fuckin' late.
Or early.

I gotta take
a fuckin' piss.

Good morning, people.
Good morning, yeah.

Do me a favor, man.

Bring you back
an empty bottle?

No. Take it out for me.

Sure.

It's fucking cold, man.
It is.

It probably just feels cold.
It's probably like yesterday.

Shit.

I'll get up. I'm ready.

Ready to hit the street.

When I first came down,
I was scared to death, man.

- Scared that--

Not scared. Just lookin' at
this goddamn place and shit.

I said, "Damn."

At that time, the only reason
I came down here-- just to get
out the public eyesight.

But as I looked around and shit
and started noticing shit,

I started building
and shit, man.

And that shit just became
into like a little project.

At first, I took it as a little camp
for two weeks.

And then this fucker
became like home.

After, I start building.

Found, you know, stuff that I can use--
clothes, TVs, lamps.

Got power.

That camping shit,
it went right away.

Left right out
my goddamn mind and shit.

You know what I'm sayin'?
And look at me now.

I been down here for fuckin' five years,
goin' on six.

Who knows it's been that long, you know?
It's been that fuckin' long.

I just forgot completely
about the damn time.

I see the place
looks a little cleaner.

Yeah, but, you know,
it's the fuckin' dog, man.

Ever since I got that dog, the fuckin' place been
fucked up, man.

What you mean it looks a little cleaner?
It looks terrible.

I was just being sarcastic.

I can see the dog chews everything up
and shit.

Yeah, man.

It's hard to keep a place clean with a dog.
Mm-hmm.

Especially out here.
He drags everything in.

Was it clean before?
Yeah, it was always--

It used to be real nice and clean.
Yeah, it was.

He used to make us
take off our shoes.

Almost every time I came in,
he had a different rug on.

Yup. Every couple of days, he'd put on another rug,
another rug.

The place was really nice,
you know.

And he was always working
on the house. Yeah.

Like what?
Fixing the door.

Always the door.
If not the inside door, the outside door.

Working on the roof.

Making the trapdoor to get out
and escape, to come in.

Putting a window in.
Then he take the window out.

You know? All kinds of stuff.
He even had a ladder in here.

Oh, the ladder, yeah. Used to be in this corner.
Yeah, I took it out.

It used to go
straight up to the roof.

And he was putting a balcony up there.
Then he changed his mind.

He's the only one that I ever see
working on their house.

Everybody else
like they's just--

No, they got some nice houses
here, bro.

Yeah, but I've seen 'em.
They did their house,

but then they never did
anything else to it.

Whenever I used to
come down here, I'd always
see him working on his house.

I thought I had
the nicest house down here. Yeah.

But I don't, bro.
Well, it don't look nice now. Yeah.

But I don't have
the nicest house.

You know who got
the nicest house down here?

Tom. Tommy.
Tommy? Yeah.

Tommy's got the nicest house.
But he's been down here
a long time, shit, though.

No. Tommy's been down here about
maybe a year longer than I have.

A lot of my friends, you know,
a lot of my fellas come down here.

Like, my boy came down
last night to visit me. Yeah.

He brought one of his boys
from school down here.

Ain't never been down here.
The kid like to shit on himself...

when he came in
and saw the place and shit.

Hey, that ain't no help to you.

Well, you feel good about it,
I guess, you know.

You think you're livin' outside,
and it ain't as outside as you think.

Make you feel a little better, yeah.
Oh, yeah.

You ain't much tramp as he thought he was
when he walkin' down the track.

That's exactly--
That always make you feel good.

I don't consider myself homeless, 'cause
a homeless man ain't got a home.

If you don't
consider yourself homeless,

then you ain't ready
to cope with this then.

If you don't
consider you homeless.

Well, I mean, I do.
It's, like,
in the back of my mind.

It's way back in the back
of your mind if you don't
consider you homeless.

You know that?
You got it a little too far
in the back of your mind.

But what's the purpose--
What was the purpose of me
building this place, right?

It's not to be helpless.
That don't say
you ain't homeless.

This stop you
from being helpless.
Oh, yeah.

But if you consider
you ain't homeless
once you get down here,

you're not doin' but
throwin' brakes on your life.

Shit. I got real comfortable
down here in this fuckin'
dump and shit, man.

Let's face it, man.
I mean, down here, didn't have
to pay no bills, no nothin'.

Look at me. I'm shavin' with--
I'm using power right now...

and I ain't even got to pay
the motherfuckin' bills
and shit.

I mean, that's part of
comfortability and shit.
You know what I'm sayin'?

Turn the TV on,
leave the TV on all night.

Ain't gotta worry about paying Con Ed.
You know?

That's fucked up, but
that's one reason how I got so
comfortable and shit. You know?

In the winter time,
I don't freeze.

Summer time,
I don't burn up.

You know? All they don't got
down here is running water.

And we did have that down here,
believe it or not, at one time.

We had running water.

Of course I got
fuckin' comfortable, man.
Got too goddamn comfortable.

That's why I'm really
pissed off at myself, man.

'Cause I, like,
lost five, six years
of my motherfuckin' life...

being down
in this motherfucker.

Man, I'm gettin' ready to
go out and make me some money.

I got to get paid.

Got to make
that almighty dollar.

So, what's happenin'?

How you go about doin' that?

I got to do my normal, man.

I got to go out,
try to find me
something to sell.

First I got to find out
what I got here
from last night.

I got these off of
75th Street.

CDs. You know what I'm sayin'?

I can sell these
to my man on 82nd Street.

And these some good CDs.
Plus I got a couple of books.

You know? Hey, I'm gonna
get paid, brother.

You know how
us homeless guys do it.

We got to make a dollar.

This my motherfuckin' van here.

That's right. That's my van.

That's right.
That's a bad motherfucker too.

Four-wheel drive. That's right.

This is my motherfuckin'
station wagon. That's right.

If you notice,
they the biggest ones,

and there go
they motherfuckin' kids.

That's right.
Eeny, meeny and fuckin' miney.

You understand what I'm sayin'?
And the reason
why I'm saying this,

because each one
of them fuckin' carts
contain something.

And what's that something?
Money.

That's like they say--
mo' money, mo' money,
mo' money, mo' money...

and mo' motherfuckin' money.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Free enterprises.

What peoples throw away,
other peoples can use.

And by them can use it,
I get paid for it
because I find it.

And half of the time, they be
in perfect working condition.

You know? Be just like new.
You know?

But down here, man--
You be surprised
the stuff that I be findin'...

and I be sellin',
getting top dollar for,
you know?

What sort of things?
Like VCRs, color televisions.

Little portable televisions
like this.

You know what I'm sayin'?
I found that.

Heaters like this.
You know what I'm sayin'?

Now, I don't sell everything.
Stuff that I can use, I keep.

But stuff that I just--
I can't use, I sell.

You know?

Everything you got
that you paid for, I can--

Nine time out of 10, I will
go out there and find it,

and it be in perfect
working condition.

And I sells it. You know?

That's the name of the game--
hustling.

I'm a hustler, bro.
I get paid.

What are you doing?

I'm putting this sign.
There's no-- no crack.

Because they be
knockin' on my house
sometimes, and they--

and they want to borrow a stem.

And I don't smoke crack no more.

It took-- You know--

It-- The crack
fucked me up, man.

The crack got me down here.

Well, crack helped me
get down here.

And then-- Now I stopped.

You know? And it took me
a fuckin' long time
to realize...

that that shit wasn't,
you know--

That wasn't it. That wasn't me.

So I don't want 'em in my house.
Because if I see it around me,
every time-- every time--

and I let people
smoke in my house-- then I'm
gonna want to get the urge.

It's bad enough that sometimes--

I stopped crack already
for a long time,
for more than three years now.

And sometimes I wake up
with the urge.

And I haven't done it
for more than three years,

and sometimes I still wake up
with the urge to smoke it,
but I fight it.

And then I'm gonna
have these people
knockin' on my house...

talkin' about if I got a stem
or they could go inside
and smoke.

You know, that shit's gonna
fuck me all up again.

So I said, "Well, let me
go ahead and put a sign."

So that way, these assholes
could read it...

and don't knock.

I do like you do sometime.
Heat it up a little bit.

Because if you don't--
Ain't no use in wastin' it.

You know?

Just heat it up
a little bit.

That's doin' it.

Okay, uh, this is one
of the things
I, uh, keep--

to keep myself
a little safer
than what, uh,

supposed to be down here.

But I usually
set up this trap...

with these pans
and everything over here.

Simply, uh, put a pan like that.

Put a little pencil
underneath there...

so, uh, it'll roll
if somebody does come by.

Put it like that,
make sure it's on there.

Come over here and tie it
to the other side underneath.

So that way, you know,
if they even got a flashlight,

they can't really see
in the dark down here.

They can't really see.

And, uh, I tie it to over here.

Not very tight, but, uh,

whatever movement you give it
from up there--

So, like, when you
walk by it, you know,
when you trip the wire--

You can see that at nighttime,
you know,

but people that
don't really know
what's goin' on, you know,

and they're just looking around,
looking to find something...

or steal something
or whatever, you know--

When you walk by it, you know,
you trip the trap.

Make all that noise.

Damn. Y'all still here?

Hey, y'all must want to
hang out with me or somethin'.

Yeah.

Man! Y'all think
you can keep up?
Come on.

'Cause I'm gettin' ready
to get paid about right now.

I ain't tryin' to hear it.

I'm gettin' ready to go out
and make me some money.

I bet you I come back with $10.

I'm gonna get paid.
Ain't no doubt about it.

Eighty percent of the population
down here is crackheads.

And that might be
an understatement. Might be
a little more than that.

It's really bad, you know,
because they smoke this shit
and they get so hooked up on it,

they just lose sight of reality.

They don't take care
of theirself. Half of them
don't wash their ass.

You know, and they're always
on some bullshit...

where they always think that
somebody's out to get 'em
and stuff like that.

It's really fucked up, you know?

I've seen guys sell coats
right off their back
in the middle of winter,

when it's 20 degrees outside,
just to support a drug habit.

I don't see how people
can let something--
something do that do them,

take control
of their life like that.

Myself, I can't
go out like that.

It was on New Year's.

I was sitting in the room
with the-- with my little
stepdaughter.

I was sittin' in the room
and shit,

and then they call me
over to the room.
Mm-hmm.

And they told me,
"You wanna get high?"

You know?
"You want some crack?"

I said, "No. I tried
that shit. That shit
don't do nothin' to me."

So they said,
"Well, try this."

Yeah.
You know?

So what they did was
that they put res--

You know, they cook it up
and they put res,

and then they put crack
on top of the res.
Shit. Yeah.

So I didn't know anything
about that shit.

And when I smoked that shit,
that shit fuckin' rocked
my fuckin' legs, man.

And my shit is like--
You know, I like to O.D.

I like to almost
O.D. on drugs.
Yeah.

I like to go
to the highest.

Man, I loved it.
I loved it.
Wow.

And I kept smoking,
kept smoking.

But I never got to get back
to that high, that first high.
That first high, yeah.

I never got it.

And I wasted
so much money, and-and--

You know,
I made a mess of myself.

Well, you see what mess
I'm into now.
Wow.

You know what I'm sayin'?
Because I wanted that high.

Man, you know,
my wife kicked me out.

She really fuckin'-- She had
my fuckin' clothes packed, bro.
Wow.

Swear to God, man.
She had my fuckin' clothes
packed, man.

Had enough, man.
' Cause she scared.

'Cause she told me,
"Either the drugs or me."

And I kept saying her,
but I kept fuckin' goin'
back to the drugs.

One day when I went home,
man, my clothes was
all packed, man.

You know, today
is a fucked-up day
and shit, man.

'Cause this Dumpster
is empty.

And I ain't seein' shit
in here.

This shit used to be stacked
up to the top with garbage.

I used to be walkin' around
the edge of this shit.
Nothin' but garbage.

I'd spend about 45 minutes
trying to go through all
of this bullshit in here.

Right here,
ain't shit in here today.

Nothin'. Nothin' but garbage.

What did you say
about this spot?

I love it.
What'd you say
about this spot?

This spot here, there's
always a lot of plastic.

There's never really been
very many cans here.

It's always been a lot
of plastic stuff.

I used to get,
like, easy money.

I usually get three or four
dollars' worth of cans
outta here.

But I usually get, like,
two bags, maybe two and a half
bags like this with plastics.

What is the best thing you sell?

The best thing I sell?

It's hard to say,
but I sell anything.

What--
What sells the best?

What sells the best?
Nasty movies.

Nasty faggot movies.
Boy movies.

Them dicks be slingin' and shit.
Them faggots be gathered about.

They be muggin' you
for that shit, man.

I mean, basically,
those faggot books
and faggot movies...

sell quicker than girlie books
and girlie movies.

I remember me and my partner
had, like, 40-some faggot books
up there and shit.

Soon as we came out
with this shit,

we sold all of them
before we sold
any other book.

You know what I'm sayin'?
Once them faggots be passin' by
and see them dicks hangin' out,

man, they be backin' up.
Man, they go and--

I had a motherfuckin' crowd.
We had a crowd, man, that day.

But that's what sells--
anything in porno, mainly sissy.

You know what I'm sayin'?

But right now, see,
I'm too early or too late, one.

Ain't nothin' out here.
Not yet anyway.

But it'll get better.
It definitely will pick up.
You know what I'm sayin'?

By the end of today,
how much will you have?

Uh, well, usually on Fridays,
if I work all day, about $70--
60 or 70 bucks.

Have enough
to play around a little bit.
You know what I'm sayin'?

Stinking rich. I call it--

I call it being
crackhead rich for the day.

You know what I'm sayin'?
'Cause I got enough money
to go out there, you know,

do basically what I wanna do
for a day or two, you know?

But it gets me
through the weekend.

I usually take Saturdays
and Sundays off and chill,
you know?

I've always done that.

I ran away from home
when I was 16.

I got tired of putting up
with my parents' bullshit.

So I just said "Fuck,"
and I left.

My father was a dope fiend,
an alcoholic.

My mother,
she didn't give a fuck.

She let my father beat on her,
beat on me and my sisters.

She wouldn't say anything.
She wouldn't do anything.

You know?

I haven't spoken to them
in 10 years,
and I don't care to.

I don't give a damn about 'em.
They can rot in hell.

They had 16 years to love me
and treat me like a son...

and much less treat me
like a human being.

They couldn't do it then,
and they couldn't do it now.

So I don't give a damn
about 'em.

They gave me life,
and that's enough.
That's all I thank them for.

- All right. Here go the egg.

What are you making?
Corn bread.

Country corn bread.

Here go the meal.

Add a little water.

How'd you learn
to make that?

Well, when you're
from the country,

you learn how to raise it,
grind it and cook it.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Yeah.

Pull it, shell it, get it brown.

And if it don't go right then,
there ain't no right in it.

Down, motherfucker. Get down.

Get down. Get the hell down.

Fuck.

Motherfucker bites, man.

And all he does is go for
the fuckin' hand, man.

All right. All right, get down.

Get down. Stay there.

That's all he does
is go for the hands.
He don't bullshit, bro.

Uh!

Motherfucker kicks my ass.

This buttermilk
makes it taste better.

You can always make it
without it.

Sweet milk makes it
more kind of crumbly.

Buttermilk makes it
go together better.

And gives it a sort of
better taste too.

Being homeless, you can,
like, consider grow down here.

Because if you're homeless
on the street--

Some of 'em have just
what they got in their arms
or a little pack on their back.

If they get caught in the rain,
they ain't got shit.

Just, like, simple as that.

So if you're homeless,
this is the best spot.

You got a door to lock on it.

You got a Frigidaire.

Where you can come in, have
just what you want to eat 'cause
you got somewhere to cook it.

You can go buy.

I think these done.
I'll take this top off
and let 'em brown.

That ain't gonna
do much brownin'
with that top on 'em.

You got a TV.

Up top, if you see a TV,
you're peeping
in a store window.

You know? So that's like--
well, you know,
like growin' down here...

compared to being homeless
anywhere, you know?

Here.

Yeah.
These are my doggies.

This is Ladybugs,
the mommy.

I've had her
for about four years.

And these are
her little kids.

This is her little boy.
This is Junior.

And the other two
are little girls.
This is Princess.

She has a bad leg.
She once fell off the roof.

Which is the reason why I
built the pen-- to keep 'em
up here so they're safe.

Plus so they don't wander
all over the place.

Come here, Fatty.
Come here, Fatty.

Come here.

This is the other
little girl.
This is Fatty.

She looks
just like her mama.

They're about-- The puppies
are about a year and--

about 14 months old.

This is my, uh, pet.

Uh, my first one. Ted.
Roger.

Yeah, Roger.

Tammy brought this one to me,
you know?

And, uh, he's-- he's real cool.

He's a lazy cat,
but a pretty one, you know?

You know.
Eats rats.

Yeah. No, he does,
but he really don't.

But Rusty does.

Mr. Rusty over here.

Eats Martians.
Shh, shh, shh.

Shh, shh, shh.

Oh, there goes a mouse.

Rusty does eat rats.

He don't eat 'em.
He just plays with them, man,

and-and-and do
a little damage...

so they don't come
into my territory, you know?

He's kinda like a trooper, yeah.

A trooper.
A little protector, yeah.

Trooper-protector, yeah.
Trooper.

That's my little Rusty.

Get outside.

Fuckin' dog.

Oh, man.

He plays, but he plays
too fuckin' rough, man.

Look at that.

Now we can play some darts,
you know?

That dog, he bit me, man.

You can hear
all that in here.

Yeah, all the racket.
Yeah, no.

But... who told me to get a dog?

- You know? I gotta-- Huh?
- Who did tell you to get a dog?

Who told me to get a dog?
The motherfucker that stole
my TV and shit.

Mm-hmm.

That's the motherfucker
made me get a dog.

Then we got the most famous
gerbil-- Miss Peaches.

Peaches.
Yeah. She had 12 kids, man.

Peaches had 12 kids.

She was all right, man.

Miss Peaches was all right.

What'd she do with her kids?

She-- Four of them died,
and-and--

and she ate
the rest of them, man.

I could-- Yeah,
I couldn't believe it, man.

And-And then I come to find out
that they do eat their young.

How the fuck are there
so many of them then?

You know?

What the fuck?
Shit.

But this is my precious
flying babes, man.

You wanna talk about
an airplane?

This is Miss Bleeks, man.

When she flew around,
she used to fuckin'--

The papers and the clothes
and everything went flying.

The rats-- Everybody went flying
when Miss Bleeks got out
of her cage, man.

And I should never have
kept her in a cage.

And for me keeping her
in a cage, she got killed.
You know?

But Miss Bleeks was the best,
man, you know?

Not the best, but close to it.

'Cause Roger was.

Come on. Come on.

Don't start your shit.

Hey, come here.
What'd I tell you
about that, huh?

I told you about your bullshit.
Get the fuck over there.
You can wait.

Get over there.
You can wait today.

Asshole.

Come here, Bugs.

Go eat. Go eat.
Come here, Fatty.
Come here.

Come here.

Come here.

I had some problems
with a fella.

And he threatened
to burn my house down.

But I didn't believe him.

But to think that somebody would
actually burn down my hut...

and hoping
that I was in it, you know?

Hey. She got burnt out, man.

What--
What the fuck can I say?

She got burnt out.
She did somebody wrong,
and they set her ass on fire.

Which I do feel bad.
I do feel bad.

And it's not funny, 'cause
that could happen to anybody.

That can happen to anybody.

That's one of the things
you got to go through
living in the street.

You know what I'm sayin'?
Could be it's that way.

You on your own down here, man.
You on your own.

But you can't run to the police,
'cause the police gonna tell
you, "Get the fuck outta here."

You know what I'm sayin'?
They ain't gonna be--

They're listening--
They don't listen, man.
You know what I'm sayin'?

Plus what police gonna
come all the way down here
in this motherfuckin' tunnel...

just to investigate
a goddamn fire?

You ain't
no motherfuckin' taxpayer.

I feel sorry for Dee though,
man. Because, like--

Dee did a little building
down there, but she'll
get it again.

Just like she got that--
I don't think she paid
for nothin', bought nothin'.

And whatever she lost,
she'll find it.

She'll get something else.

I walked around
for a little while, then--

after cryin' and... hurt--

I went to Ralphie.

And I asked Ralphie if I
could stay at his house
for a few days...

until I could, you know,
find some more wood and stuff
to build another hut for myself.

You gonna
put eggs in there too?

Sure.

Man. Eggs, mustard.

That's what makes it
taste so good.

Don't stretch your luck now.

You've been okay today.
I haven't been bustin'
your ass today.

Get over here. Over here.

Stretch it here. Get here.

That's cool.
I gotta feed the dog.

The dog's already fed.
His food's prepared. You fed him?

All you gotta do
is put it in a bowl.

You gotta make some
collard greens someday, man.

It ain't nothin'
but just roll them up, cut 'em.

That ain't all to it.
You gotta clean
them suckers.

You gotta clean 'em a little.
Clean them from the little bugs,
you know, that they collect.

Yeah.
Yeah, I know
how to do that.

I clean 'em and then--
and then-- and then
I roll them up...

and I cut 'em, like,
in little slices.

Oh, yeah.
And-And then--

That's cold water.

I know. Cold water's no good
to wash that.

Well, thanks a lot.

I told you I--
I just take the spaghetti...

and put the top on it
and just go like this.

Simple, man. Instead
of goin' through all that.

Yeah, well, like, you cook
different from I do.

I-- I-- You know.

I mean,
we're homeless people.
Yeah, but we homeless people--

But if you know how to cook,
cook right.

Come outta there, oil.

Come on outta there.
There you go.

Olive oil. Goddamn right.

No, no, no.
It's not that, Dee.
Dee, it's not that.

Then what is it?

If you're gonna come
and you're gonna drink
out the fuckin' cup, right,

and then you're gonna
lay the cup there...

and then you're gonna go out
and then the cup is gonna
be there dirty all goddamn--

for two days,
then I'm gonna throw it out.

I bet you didn't do that
to your wife, did you?

No, I didn't do it to her,
'cause she would've
kicked my ass.

Yeah, she would've
kicked that ass, boy.

But-But--
But I have to do it now...

because in the situation
that we live.

If you leave-- If you leave
shit on the floor, what happens?

What will happen?

I bet you didn't do that shit
to your wife.

But we didn't have rats
like we have here.

Yeah, but still in all,
you didn't do that shit
to your wife.

We don't have rats
like we have--

She'd have kicked your ass
all over that damn place.

What type cup was it?
She's a funny girl.

It was, uh, a cup--
It was a large cup.

It was one of them large cups.
You know what I'm sayin'?

That my friend brought back
from a country where he went
to on his vacation.

What country?
And it was kinda shaped
like a mermaid.

You know?
Just the top like this here.

That shit was
from McDonald's, man.
It wasn't no damn McDonald's.

That shit
was from McDonald's.
It was not no McDonald's.

McDonald's don't even
have cups like that.
I know. You got the last one.

No. Right, yeah.
I didn't get no last one.

They don't even have cups like--
And it had "Pepsi" on the side.

'Cause I got the top to it,
you know?
It's still a McDonald's cup.

It's got the straw to it
and got the cap to the straw.
McDonald's don't carry--

Whoever gave her the cup
went to McDonald's, got
the cup, wrapped it up...

and said, "Hey, baby, here.
I got this up in Spain"
or some shit.

My friend don't do
no shit like that.

My friend don't do
no shit like that.
I don't know.

All I know is that if
there's dirty stuff here
and it's not cleaned--

- Goddamn.
- So where you hide all that shit at?

Keep it in my food bucket.

I got a couple food buckets
over next to me.

Keep it in
your food bucket?
Yeah. In the food bucket.

So where you
put your pots and shit at?

Where you see 'em at.

My man. My man.

I mean, I understand
the situation,

but check it out,
my brother.

Shit ain't that
motherfuckin' rough, man.

It can get better.

I know you survivin', and I
respect that to the fullest.

With all these big
motherfuckin' horses
you got runnin' around here,

you leave your shit
right there?

Yeah. I wash my shit.
What's wrong with that?

You talkin' bad on me.
You mean you got room
in this motherfucker for a sink?

Well, you build me one then.

And the rats--

How the rats gonna come
when a dog is here?

They were comin'
through that hole, man.

Did they-- Did they come in?
Fuckin' right they came in.

Where was the dog?
The dog was outside.

Yeah, the dog was outside.
The dog let the rats come in.
That's what I'm sayin'.

Hey, listen.
If the dog is outside,
the rats is in here,

how the hell
the dog is gonna--

Why you think the dog when he
ruffin' out there like that?
To keep 'em from comin' in here.

He's woofin' that way,
and they're comin' in
through this way.

The dog is woofin'
over there.
I ain't seen no rat up in here.

Hey, put it this way.
You lost a cup.

See, for me, I'm a damn fool.

I sit here and battle
with the motherfuckers...

like I was a asshole
last night and shit, man.

Them motherfuckers
wore me out last night, man.

I'm thinkin'
I'm gettin' this one, and shit,
another one's zooming by.

Shoop! Know what I'm sayin'?

They all tried
to get inside of here.

They looking
right at me and shit
and jumping and shit.

But I almost caught
one of them motherfuckers
last night.

Soon as he jumped-- bam.

I didn't hit him directly
on his motherfuckin' head,

but that motherfucker
went away--

I know he ain't come back
last night for no more.

He said fuck that.
He had enough.

But he went
and told his relatives.

Tell you, man. I couldn't sleep
at all last night.

Shit. But it ain't gonna
be like that shit tonight.

It might be like that tonight,
but I know they gonna
be fooled tonight.

Look like I can't get rid
of this motherfucker.

I got to clean up behind him
worse than I do me.

He don't bring no company
with him either.
He by himself.

Motherfucker.

Every time I see
this motherfucker, that make me
have a worse night's sleep,

because I know he in here
and I know he walk at night.

He walk at night,
and I try to sleep at night.

So me and him
ain't gonna make it
with that kinda shit.

I hope... this'll--

Well, this may make him
go under my bed,

but I'm gonna put that lye down.

I hope he come back
and check his house out
and the food I have for him.

And then I got something
for his ass then.

Talkin' about
now I'm cookin' him
something to eat, man.

I'm tired of him takin' my shit.

Keep tellin' 'em, man,
they ain't got to take it
and shit.

Just ask me for it.
Shit, you know?

I'll give you--
I'll fix you a meal.

I'm definitely gonna fix 'em
something to eat.

I'm gonna fix 'em a good meal.
After this, they ain't
gonna want no more.

They ain't gonna want
nothin' else to eat after this.

'Cause I'm gonna put
sausages in it, oatmeal.

And I'm gonna put the topping
on top of it and shit.

Once I put that
on top of it and shit,

all they gonna want is water.

What is that?

It's poison. Shit.

They got some wise-ass rats
out there.

Give 'em a pack of this.

Pack of this'll keep 'em away.
You know?

Once I mix this all up and shit,

they ain't gonna want
nothin' else to eat, man.

Gonna be too full.

After they get their water,
all they gonna want to do
is just go lay down.

That's all.
And they ain't gonna want
to get back up no more.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Look good, don't it?

It look good, my friend.

I ain't gonna stand here
and lie to you.

It look good.

You want some,
don't you?
No, sir.

You ain't gonna get none.

There's some things you do
and some things
you don't do.

Well, what's that?
The shit you doin' now.

What I'm doin' now,
I am eatin'.

I understand that.
You know--

This tastes good.
I--

This is rice.
What--

This is ham. Fried.

Seasonin' real good.

And it tastes very good.

And it's clean.

Probably cleaner than
some of those come out
of the kitchens...

in restaurants and stuff.

This is clean food,
and it tastes very good.

Lot of flavor.
The food might--

It wa clean food.
Mmm.

What's the-- I mean--

You cannot dump on this.

All you can do is just eat this
and keep on eatin',

and you'll probably want more.

Yo, Tommy!

What's up, Tommy?
Oh, shit. Oh, shit.

What's up, man?

What's up?

- When did they let you out, yo?
- What's goin' on over here?

Oh, damn. Yo. This is Marc.
This is my friend Marc.

What's up? How you doin'?
This is my boy Brian
I been talkin' to you about.

You lost
a lot of weight, kid.
Yeah. What's up, man?

Seriously,
when did they let you out?

When did you build
the fuckin' loft?

While you was up north and shit.
Proper.

What's up, yo?
Nothin', man.

I can't believe
this shit, yo.

Oh, shit.
No doubt, no doubt.

Hey, eight
and a half months, kid.

No doubt. Too long too.
Eight and a half.

Too long.
Come on, let's go inside.

Oh, shit.

It looks nice in the back.

That enough?
Turn around.

Turn around.

Lookin' good.

What's so funny?

What the hell did you do?

Hold still.

Don't be
fuckin' around, Dee.

Holy shit.

Fuckin' cold!

Ahhh!

Oh, fuck.

Oh!

Holy shit. Fucking cold!

Oh, my goodness!

Huh?
That's a lot of shit.

You know, hey.

What you expect
with four dogs, man?

Especially growing-- You know,
growing puppies shit a lot.

Fuckin' shit!

It's like-- I remember back
when I just had Ladybugs.

Never got like this. Never.

Feels good, does it?

It feels good,
but it's fuckin' cold.

Aw, just
speed it up some.

Holy shit!

Ohh!

Welcome back
to the shit, right?

Brr!

You not gonna stop doin' anything
until you ready to stop.

So don't you think
it's about time
for you to stop?

No. When I get
good and ready,
I'm gonna stop.

And when is that?
When? I don't know.

It could stop me.
So, that's the problem.

It could stop you
instead of you stopping it.

Yeah, but still in all--
But I don't like
to be pressured.

I was smoking crack,
and I stopped.
But you still smokin' reefer.

I smoke reefer,
but I don't smoke crack.
Well, all right.

But regardless,
it's still a narcotic.
There's a difference to it.

You ain't gonna
stop doin' anything--
There's a difference to it.

No. No, no.
You could smoke a fuckin' bag
of reefer and chill out--

I understand all that.
The only thing that--

No, no, but check this out.
It's still a drug.
It's still a drug.

But check this--
Anything you want--

When you get ready
to stop something,

you gonna stop it
on your own.

You don't have to--
I'm not saying that--

I'm not saying that.
Okay, but--

I'm not saying that.
By-By-By you keep saying
to me stop smoking crack,

it only makes me want
to go out and smoke more.

Why? You a baby?
You understand
what I'm sayin'?

You ain't no baby.
Don't pressure me.
That's pressure.

That's putting pressure
on me.
So when you gonna stop?

You understand what I'm saying?
When you stop putting
pressure on me--

When you and the other people
stop putting pressure on me--

Yeah, but you put it, like,
I smoke reefer--

I smoke reefer,
but what happens--
I don't put pressure on you.

But what happens
when I smoke reefer?

I sit down, I chill out--
I understand all that.

and the only thing I do is eat.
But regardless,
still, fact remains.

I still--
All right, I'm not gonna put
no pressure on you.

That's it. You do--
You wanna--

Don't-- Don't come back and say
that you didn't do it
when you did it.

Don't come back over here
talkin' about you didn't do it.
But don't even bother to ask me.

But don't bother to say it.

I'm being punished for
every goddamn thing I did wrong.

And still got
more punishment to come 'cause
I done so much shit wrong.

I--

I mean,
I done a lot of things wrong.

A lot.

I get to the point where
sometimes I feel like crying.

You know.

Sometimes I feel like crying.

Sort of like--

Because, uh, I--

It was that I was
so damn selfish with myself,
with everybody around me.

I was-- It was all about me.
It was--

I didn't care about what
anybody thought, you know.

I was fucked up.

I went-- Listen. I went to jail.

I got caught robbing.

I went to jail,
let's say, today.

Yesterday, my daughter was born.

I came out.

Before my daughter
was out of the hospital,

I was back in jail.

Then I came out
five years later...

and stood out,
like, two months.

Out of 10 years that
I did in jail, I stood out
two months, two weeks.

What happened, when you was inside,
to your daughter?

My daughter? My daughter--

In 1976-- '76?

Yeah. In '76
I was doin' time,

and my daughter was raped.

She was five years old.
She was raped.

Her leg was cut off,

her arm was cut off,

and she was burned.

That made me feel
fucked up because I--

You know, part of it,
I think, was my fault,

'cause I should have been there
instead of, you know,

being in jail
and doing what I was doing--

robbin' and doin'
all the things I was doin'.

You know, I wasn't
taking care of her.

I went to detox.
I needed a break.

Oh, that's what
you was. In detox. Yeah.

I was fuckin' lookin' for you
all over the fuckin' place, man.

I was sayin', "Damn, man.
I hope he didn't go to jail."

No. Mm-mmm.

We had a nice time up there too.
Plus, they changed the menu.

Oh, yeah?
A little bit, yeah.
There used to be--

My favorite used to be
eggplant for lunch.
Mmm.

Now they don't have it
regularly for lunch.

Now they have that
as the chef's special.

Oh, yeah?
So you could only get that
once a week.

How about--
The eggplant, you mean?
Yeah.

I love
that fuckin' eggplant.
That shit was great. Yeah.

The first time I was there,
that's the first thing I had.

I didn't even know
what it was.
You had to get double portions.

Yeah. Yeah.
Eggplant Parmesan.

Oh, man.
Yeah.

Forget it. I eat that
all fuckin' day long.

The first time I was there--
You don't get a chance
to choose your stuff.

Get down. Get down!
They just give you whatever's
around until later on.

But when I got there,
my first time, that's
the first thing they gave me.

That's my favorite, man.
I said, "This thing looks great.
I'm gonna eat"--

And I didn't know
what it was.
Yeah.

'Cause I never ate eggplant
in my life. Man, I mean--

I thought it was some
weird shit, you know?

If you would tell me eggplant--
"Who the hell eats that shit?"

But it was good,
and I always order that
every chance I get.

Eh.

I don't know what that is.
I don't like to--

I only eat
what I'm familiar with.

See, they got all this
other stuff that I ain't
never seen before.

See?

See, this is beef.

Good stuff.

Very, very edible.
Very tasty too.

This is one of the safest spots
you can eat from. You know?

'Cause the food is clean.

Plus, it's kosher.

See, once they throw
all they food out,
they put it all in one bag.

They don't mix it up,
like, with garbage,

coffee grounds, trash
or nothin' like that.

It all be clean.

Take a few of everything, man.

And tie the bag back up.
We put it in that box.

There goes
the chocolate.
Where? Where?

Chocolate.

I got a whole fuckin' bag
of doughnuts, man.

Look at that shit.

And these are today's doughnuts.
You want one?

Yeah.

These are good, man.
They're good. Yeah.

They're fuckin' good.
They're my favorite.

They are good. Yeah.
Where?

Oh, okay. Thanks.

These motherfuckers
is good, man.

All right.

Fuckin'-A.
I'm gonna eat
these motherfuckers.

I'm gonna eat these too.
Get me a container of milk.

Just in time.
Maybe two containers of milk.

Phew!

Yo, Brian,
that motherfucker stinks, man.

If you'd wash your fuckin' ass--
No, if you'd wash
your fuckin' ass, man.

Dump it, man. Dump it.

I was in jail and, uh,
it had came on the news...

that two kids had got burnt
in a fire--

My two sons. You know.

I regret so many things
I may have done.

I didn't have no right
to lose my children.

Sometime I ask...

why it couldn't
have been me.

Why couldn't it
have been me?

I like that responsibility
of being a mother,

somebody a little one
can look up to.

Sendin' 'em off to school.

They get
the education they need.

Man.

I miss all those things.

I do.

When they woke me up, man, they
had their guns and everything,
you know.

And it's, like,
what the fuck, you know?

Because it took me time
to get ready, you know,
put my shoes on,

'cause I sleep comfortable
in there, all right?

Take my socks off,
you know, my jacket.

I wasn't gonna come out here
in my underwear...

with my shit hangin' out,
you know?

You know what I'm sayin'?

"What, you gonna come out
or what?"

Bangin' on the door.
You know what I'm sayin'?

"Hey, take it easy, okay?"
You know?

So when that happened,
they saw that I took my time,

and then I came out
fully dressed.

And they had their guns.
I was, like, "Hey"--

I went over there
to take a piss. "Hey,
where you goin'?" You know?

"Hey, relax, man.
What the fuck is wrong with you?

I'm not against you.
You guys are comin' down here
to fuck me up, all right?

Huh? I'm not-- I can't do
nothing to you guys...

because there's too many
of youse, all right?

I'll take you on one on one,
and I'll talk to you.

All right? Nothing about guns,
bats or nothing like that.

I'll talk to you one on one."

They said they wanted me
to clean that shit up.

I said,
"I ain't cleanin' shit up."
I got to move?

Fuck, I ain't cleaning
that shit up.

They must be mad.
Take me to jail.

You know what I'm sayin'?
I need a little rest anyway.

I ain't cleaning up that garbage
if I got to move. Shit.

That's makin' they job
much easier and shit.
'Cause last time--

They was here during the winter.
They said we had to leave.

They said they were gonna
do it in a humane way.
They was gonna--

We were gonna sit down
at a table.

Gonna be some big wheels
from Amtrak to discuss
where we gonna go at.

Last time they was here,
they tell me they don't
give a fuck where we go.

We just gotta go and shit.

They said they were
gonna try to get us housing
or shelter or something else.

I don't know
what that something else is.

I don't wanna go to a shelter...

'cause I don't wanna worry
about them stealing my shit.

They're gonna steal
all my clothes. They're gonna
steal everything I got.

Drugs--
It's infected with drugs.

What they should do
is leave us down here.

That's what they should do.

Leave us down here
until they get housing,

and when they get housing,
they ship us out.

But not just
take us outta here.

I mean, we're over here,
down here by ourselves,
my friend.

Like family, all right?

Now you're gonna break up
the whole family,
all right? Huh?

And it's not worth it, man.
It's not fair to us.

I mean, they gotta
have something, at least.

If you're gonna
construct down here, okay,

put some of us to work,
you know?

Huh? Or for us to get
something out of it.

Because this has been our home
for over three years-- for me.

Imagine all the people that
been down here for 20 years.

I got-- I got three words--

I got three word for whoever's
fuckin' idea this was, okay?

And it's not "I love you."

It's "Leave us alone."

People residing in the tunnel...

are experiencing
a lot of health difficulties.

There are respiratory
conditions...

from living in cool,
dank conditions--

Uh, asthma I know is prevalent
amongst a few individuals.

Um-- And it's just--

There's a lot of vermin
and disease that spread
from the--

from rodents and vermin
in the tunnel.

And, of course,
the danger of living
close to high-speed trains.

Individuals run the risk
of being struck by trains.

We've had two fatalities there
in the course of the year.

One woman froze to death
from exposure,

and another individual
was struck by a train.

It is absolutely a dangerous,
horrendous living situation.

Oh, this tastes pretty good.

There-- There you go.

Be like it ain't right.
It tastes pretty good.

Look at him.
Why are you smiling though?

You better be thinking about
where we're goin' when we get
out of this motherfucker.

Maybe the cooking's over.

I'll probably go back
on the East Side.

Yeah? You can't build
over there.
Huh?

Can't build nothin'
over there.

We'll find somewhere.

That sounds shitty.

You can't go--
Can't go in the park.

Damn know that.
What you gonna do?

Gotta move on.

You gotta-- See, you gotta learn
how to go with the flow.

Yeah, I know, but I been
goin' with the flow, man,
since I became homeless.

That's how he got in here
is goin' with the flow.

No, I'm sayin'--
Uh-huh. Every time,
I stay in the flow.

I'm sayin'--
When are we gonna get
the fuck outta the flow?

Bein' homeless,
it's all types of problems.

You never know
what lies ahead.
Mmm.

So until it comes,
then you deal with it.

Can't plan shit,
being really homeless.
Mmm.

You know what I'm sayin'?
No, you can't.

Can't plan shit.
No.

You know what I'm sayin'?
You say, "I'm goin' home
and goin' to sleep."

Yeah.
They fuck around.

You get there, and that
motherfucker's gone.

Yeah. Your home is gone. Yeah.
Yeah, you can put
more water in there.

I remember
what happened to us.
You know what I'm sayin'?

It's very hard to plan,
so what you gotta do...

is-is deal with it
day by day.

Yeah, when we used to sleep
upstairs, when they were goin'
home to go to sleep--

our home was gone.

I was gonna go down
to 28th Street and let 'em
sign us up in the Y.

'Cause I ain't goin'
in no shelter.

Gotta sign us up someplace.

Shelter's out.
Say what?

Shelter is out.
I ain't goin' in no shelter.

I'll ride the train.

I ain't gonna ride
no motherfuckin' train.

I tried that
about two nights.

That ain't nothin'.

Our first response,

because of the long relationship
that we've had with our clients,

was to immediately go to court.

Previous to Amtrak's decision
to evict people
out of the tunnel,

we had just sued Amtrak
on the grounds...

they could not throw people
out of Penn Station,

a travel area here
in New York City.

So when we found out that Amtrak
was gonna come in, we were--

Immediately we thought law suit,
because we knew...

we had to stop them
from throwing people
out of the tunnel...

who had called it their home
for 10, 15, 25 years.

We met with Amtrak officials,
and they were very--
at first very abrupt.

They wanted everybody out.
Had to be in a few days.

They were gonna fence it off,
put in security guards.

And we worked out a plan
that we would assist people...

into moving into temporary
shelter if Amtrak
would not evict people.

Um, but soon thereafter
we learned of a program...

run by the federal government--
a Section 8 program--

and we guaranteed Amtrak...

that no one would be left
inside of the tunnels.

The Section 8 program,
the housing program
here in New York City,

is a great ticket into housing.

It guarantees someone
an apartment,

helps pay the brokers
and the security fees.

So it was a perfect chance,
and I think Amtrak knew that,

uh, it's a good opportunity
to work with advocates...

rather than having
a legal challenge.

And, um, on our part,
on civil liberties' part,
we were pretty confident.

Had we had to go to court,
we would have won.

It was a crystal-clear violation
of people's rights.

But we didn't want
to defend people
to live on the street.

We wanted
to get them into housing.
That was the ultimate goal.

And, uh, we're glad
we didn't have to go to court.

A'ight. You ready? Go!

Ah.

We're outta here!

We're outta here!

Whoo!

It's hard to believe
it's our last day in this place.

Right? I thought this day
would never come.

Right?
It did.

I thought this day
would never come. Right?
Yup.

No doubt.

Are you excited?
Excited?

Yeah.
No doubt. Excited.

Excited.
Blazing excited.

Feel like a crackhead who just
found a thousand bottles
on the tracks.

Yo. That's all dirty laundry.
Yeah?

So wanna put all
the dirty shit in here?

A'ight. That way, we don't
mix the dirty clothes in
with the clean ones.

All right.

There it goes!

That's goin'.

Hey! Strong hands.

All right, load it up
and make it strong.

What was it you said
about you got a job?

Oh, yeah. Got a job.

Comin' up. 8.50 an hour.
Working at King's Steak
in the Bronx.

That's all right
'cause I'm gonna
blow you out of the water...

once I get this mountain bike
and start working
this messenger's job.

As a cook.
Start makin', like,
seven or eight bills a week.

What you gonna do then, huh?

Hey, enough to pay the rent.
Enough to help
out with food.

I don't care.
No doubt.

Anything helps.
Once we start these jobs,

ain't gonna be
no more fried chicken
and shit like that.

Gonna be straight-up steaks,
filet mignon and all kinds
of good shit every night.

I'll bring steak home
every night of the week.

No doubt.

We gonna gain about--
We gonna gain about
400 pounds apiece, right?

Mm-hmm.

Break that house.

Got some good memories
here, too, in New York.

You gonna miss it?

Sometimes.
Definitely
gonna miss it.

Not bad enough
to come back though.

Just gonna miss
the freedom down here.

The thought of "This is mines,
and I can do whatever
I want to with it."

'Cause in an apartment,
you can't do that.

That's all right.

What's next?

Just have you sign
some of these things.

This white piece
of paper is your--

It's proof that you're
actually homeless.

* So long

* Little chapel

Damn!

* Pack up your light
Pack up your light *

Fuck!

God! God! God! God! Damn!

All right, now!

Come on!

Whoo!

I love my apartment, Jack.

I love my apartment!

I hooked my apartment up.

All the little money
I made when I hustled
or made when I was out there,

I'm putting it all back in here
on this apartment...

to make it look decent.

I definitely
love my apartment.

As far as the living room's
concerned, you know,

once I get it together
the way I want it,

there's eventually going to be
a nice new set of furniture
goin' around.

I hope to get
these corner couches--

You know what I'm talking about,
right? The kind of sectionals.

Like, this is one sectional
here, as you can see.

But what I want to do
is get a matching sectional...

that goes all the way around
like this.

And eventually I'm gonna get
a new entertainment center.

As you can see, right now
I'm just making do
with a bookshelf.

But I'm hoping to eventually get
a new entertainment center...

to put on this wall
for everything.

And eventually there'll be
a nice 25-inch color TV here...

with cable hook-up and a VCR
and a nice stereo system.

I plan to get, like, a nice rug
to sit out here.

Yeah, it feels good.

I'm getting new furniture,
new carpet.

Yeah, it feels good.

I can't wait. It's like--

I'm telling you, to me,
it's like having a--
giving a baby a toy.

He'll play with it all day.

That's the way--
That's the way I am.

Every day it's something new,
but it's something good.
You know?

Now it feels like
I never was in there.

But see, that was
the most saddest part...

of my journey through life.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Dark-- That was dark days.
Dark. Real dark.

But during the time,
it didn't bother me at all.

But once I sit back
and think about it,

I ask myself,
"Damn. How could I,
you know, have done that?

Let myself go like that?"

But it be that way,
you know?

You don't realize
until you get out of it,

and then, you know, you look
back every now and then--

what I went through--

and you say,
"Damn. I used to do that?
That used to be me?"

And you say, "Oh, no way."

Yeah. That used to be me.

It definitely used to be me.

I'm tellin' you, to me,
it's like it never
happened at all,

and it never
will happen again.

Ever, ever, ever.
Never, never, ever happen.

I will never
go homeless again.

That was like a nightmare.

You know?
And I woked up out of it,

and I'm staying awake.

I'm serious.
I don't want that shit.
I don't need it.

Mm-mmm. I'd rather stay working
and, you know, doing good.

I don't wanna be
homeless no more.

Whoopee!

It feel real good.