Credit: (April Saul for WHYY)
On July 9, Ferry Station tenant Sarah Rogers, right, tries to prevent a nonresident from entering her senior apartment complex, where trespassers have been sleeping in community areas and hallways, frightening residents and sometimes leaving human excrement behind.
On July 9, Sarah Rogers, 72, tried to keep a much younger woman from entering Conifer Village at Ferry Station, a Camden senior housing complex where Rogers lives and where the front door was broken and unlocked again.
The stranger said she was visiting a “Barbara” on the third floor, then corrected herself and said it was actually the second floor.
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CAMDEN Shaneka. Boucher represents Bergen Square, a troubled neighborhood where neat rowhouses, some with flower-filled side yards, some with nice porches, even one with a small urban farm, co-exist with empty, trash-strewn lots.
A neighborhood where spent drug paraphernalia is as common on the sidewalk as spotted lantern flies. A neighborhood where homeless people and people in active addiction live and congregate under interstate overpasses, where children walk to school and where seniors make trips to church and corner bodegas.
A neighborhood where heavy trucks rumble past, on their way to recycling facilities, steel warehouses, the port, waste management facilities, or just to dump their loads illegally in a city where too many feel forgotten.
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