A `FREEDOM OF THE '90s'; For Potomac Gardens, Safety Means Life Behind an Iron Curtain

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 8, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Inside the eight-foot-tall black, wrought iron fence that surrounds the Potomac Gardens public housing development, James West sits on a bench sipping coffee and waxing philosophical about freedom in a time of drug dealing, drive-by shootings and stray bullets.

"It's because of this fence that I can come down here and enjoy a spring day and a cup of coffee - things we should never take for granted in life - and not worry about dope addicts or drunks or any other scourge," West said while a gaggle of young men outside the fence drank from brown paper bags on a street corner notorious for ...

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