Marking Change on McBride's Hill

At the corner of Duckworth Street and McBride’s Hill, a slapped together, splintered, over-painted plywood fence rimmed an abandoned and acutely ugly building. Weathered signs announced a planned redevelopment which had not yet begun. Splashes of graffiti created pops of color across old wood and building facades. In their own disparate ways, builders, taggers and determined weeds were bringing new life to a bleak city block.