Ray’s other, more profitable crackhouse, besides the Game Room. La Farmacia’s name is Spanish for “the pharmacy,” as it really is a one-stop-shop for any imaginable kind of drug. Located in the building where Ray grew up, which has since become completely abandoned, La Farmacia is next to and linked to the Social Club (an illicit bar), which Ray also runs.
La Farmacia Quotes in In Search of Respect
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Chapter 3
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In the five years that I knew Primo he must have made tens of thousands of hand-to-hand crack sales; more than a million dollars probably passed through his fingers. Despite this intense activity, however, he was only arrested twice, and only two other sellers at the Game Room were arrested during this same period. No dealer was ever caught at Ray’s other crackhouses, not even at the Social Club on La Farmacia’s corner, even though its business was brisker.
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Chapter 1: Violating Apartheid In the United States
...“inadvertently ‘disrespect[s]’ Ray,” the owner of a number of local crackhouses, including one nicknamed “ La Farmacia ” in the now-burned out building where he grew up.
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Chapter 2: A Street History of El Barrio
...a fixation of the literature about East Harlem since the 1920s, and that pictures of La Farmacia and clients who buy Ray’s drugs have even been shown in recent works of journalism...
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Chapter 3: Crackhouse Management: Addiction, Discipline, and Dignity
...However, when Ray begins investing heavily in his other business, the Social Club next to La Farmacia , he grows more demanding and begins cutting into Primo’s authority: Ray hires his own...
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Chapter 6: Redrawing the Gender Line on the Street
...with sensitivity and care. Candy works all night, commanding attention on the street corner outside La Farmacia , before sending her children to school in the morning. Ray never worries about Candy’s...
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Epilogue
...building turned into public housing, but another building has become nearly “uninhabitable.” The area around La Farmacia has also seen little change. When he sees one of the pregnant crack addicts from...
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