On the left, beyond the boarded-up store, a window washer was washing shop windows.

Blocks away, or just around a corner, boarded-up stores and littered lots are scattered between thriving businesses.

A row of boarded-up stores and a garbage-strewn lot flank the complex.

The strip is clogged with traffic, and there are very few boarded-up stores.

The northern blocks were rows of faded, boarded-up stores.

They've now closed, leaving boarded-up stores, no pedestrian traffic and few jobs.

Ahead, he saw a boarded-up store on a corner.

Police cars parked in a cluster before the boarded-up store on the corner were a light show.

"What you're not seeing is a lot of boarded-up stores," she said.

When I first came here it was like a ghost town, with no people, boarded-up stores and tumbleweed rolling down the main street.