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The beating heart of the show — a dense, vibrant urban neighborhood somewhere in an unnamed American city, where every block has a personality and every corner has a history.
The neighborhood is never named, in a city never named — and this is part of its genius. It feels like every dense urban American neighborhood and no specific one. It has the rhythm of the East Coast but the light of somewhere else. The stoops are social institutions. The corner store is a community center. The back alleys are shortcuts and staging grounds for adventures. Every block has its own character. The block where the Sunset Arms stands is particularly lively. The neighborhood has a history — Gerald knows it in the form of urban legends, the older residents know it in lived experience — and that history shapes the place in ways that surface constantly.
Wide sidewalks cracked by tree roots, stoops cluttered with potted plants and folding chairs, brick buildings close enough to the street that you can hear conversations from the sidewalk. Fire escapes serve as informal balconies. The air smells of exhaust, food from open restaurant doors, and the particular damp warmth of a city in summer. Pigeons everywhere.
Also known as: The Neighborhood Streets, Streets