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Title: A good place if you're a pigeon.  
Photographer: H Fruchtman for the Health of Philadelphia Photo-Documentation Project.

About The Photograph

open quotesParticipant: I see why [the pigeons] get so big here because Philadelphia just pollutes the streets so much with trash that they just say, "We are going to wait out because they are going to throw some trash out here in a minute."

Interviewer: It's a good place to live.

Participant: Yeah, if you're a pigeon. They probably call, "You need to move to Philadelphia because it's so polluted there. We get anything. You see how much weight I've gained since I flew to Philly?"close quotes


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