This is a big drug-infested area.

The drug-infested area was maybe 5 to 10 miles from us.

"That's another world," he said, referring to the drug-infested area a half-mile away.

"They still think of this as a drug-infested area."

People remember the burned-out buildings and drug-infested areas.

Sometimes children as young as 7 are used as guards or couriers in what the police call one of the most drug-infested areas of the city.

"We bus in the kids from all the drug-infested areas of Long Island," Mr. Jack said.

"Who's going to pay the same for a drug-infested area as for one with birds and trees and lunchtime concerts?"

The school sits in a drug-infested area populated mostly by immigrants from the Dominican Republic.

The specter of widespread police corruption has also been raised by some residents of drug-infested areas.