A group of teenage girls pour out of the Utica A train station, faces greased with Vaseline; their hair tied up...

Women wearing their "Sunday best", crowned with flamboyant hats engage in chit-chat while waiting for the Downtown B65. A mother drags reluctant children down the block to a storefront church. Stopped by a red light, a black Cadillac blares Gospel music as its driver belts out the lyrics, flawlessly hitting every note and key. Faithful members pack into a tiny brownstone church cozied between a Chinese restaurant and hair salon on Utica off of St. Marks.