However, all these signs are made harder to read by the large metal bars over the windows.
Columbia Market, a small Spanish bodega in the heart of Area 4, is one such store. The signs are in multiple languages, and the products inside are just as diverse. Fruits and exotic vegetables line the floors.
For 40 years, Manuel R. "Manny" Maldonado has lived in the same building as the market. Since his employer moved to Texas seven years ago, after he had worked there 33 years, he has spent much time talking to people around the market.
"I go together with everyone," he says. "White, black, Hispanic, it doesn't matter to me."
He doesn't think crime is Area 4's biggest problem, partly because the area's situation has improved in recent years.
"We've got good services here, especially the police," he says. "There's more help for the small people."
Indeed, the problem, he says, is that residents "can't afford it."
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