And then, just like in the movie, the streets suddenly filled up.
"In the summer, we go to the sprinklers in the park," says Dweny Pierre-Louis, 12, hanging out with friends Ednickleda Augeste, Katia Barthelemy and Kassan Geermian in front of one townhouse.
"Even in the winter, we throw water balloons at each other," Auguste, 11, chimes in.
All four kids have neighborhood pride, as they flash the "West Side" hand-sign.
Most kids hang out at the West Cambridge Youth Center at the Haggerty, they say.
But when the Haggerty is closed, the soccer, baseball, tennis and basketball facilities by Fresh Pond serve as an alternative neighborhood hangout.
"It's mad safe," says Cambridge Rindge and Latin School student Eddy W. Auguste, playing pickup basketball with other teenagers on Saturday.
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