BALTIMORE -- Nneka N’namdi was driving home in Baltimore’s Upton and Harlem Park neighborhoods on Mother’s Day in 2016 when she came across a situation she thought could turn into a tragedy.
Driving down Fremont Avenue, she caught a glimpse of a group of children riding their bikes on the sidewalk where four brownstones were being demolished at Lafayette Street.
“I noticed some kids were on foot. I think two on foot, two on bikes. And it was a huge demolition site. But it didn’t have no gates, no signs that say ‘stay out’ — nothing,” N’namdi said. “Just huge mounds of debris, where the houses used to be.”
