While growing up, "Manhunt" creator Monica Beletsky wondered why the neighborhoods in her hometown of Philadelphia were so different from each other despite being so geographically close, as in no more than five- or 10-minutes' distance between them. Most big cities are quilted this way, with working class squares abutting middle- and upper-class areas.
"I think it's just something I always had in the back of my mind. 'Why is it like this?'" Beletsky asked in a recent Zoom interview. "I knew it couldn't be because of people's innate potential. It had to be something more structural."
