This photograph shows our city in a completely different time. It shows a part of Harlem that looks almost like ruins from a war. Vergara depicts the neglect and terrible conditions that people in poorer neighborhoods, mainly minorities, must live in. It also shows how they don’t seem to mind where they are. It is almost as if they have grown used to it. The African-American boys simply walk over the scrap metal and broken bricks, carrying their instrument cases, almost likely after a day at school, not really paying mind to the building’s ruins.