In a city where poverty is weaponized for profit, a corrupt mayor and a wealthy developer conspire with a local gangster to suppress property values until a lucrative gentrification scheme can be triggered. As dirty cops protect this manufactured decay, a lone honest detective must peel back the layers of a sprawling conspiracy orchestrated by a hidden mastermind. 

CLEANING UP THE STREETS IS DIRTY BUSINESS

#POLITICIAN #DEVELOPER #GANGSTER

SYNOPSIS:

On paper, the City of Newark, which sits on the Hudson River directly across from downtown Manhattan, should be some of the most valuable real estate in the entire United States, but the reality could not be further from the truth. Whoever changes that fact will gain both unmatched public glory and tremendous private wealth, no matter their intentions and regardless of who ends up benefiting and who ends up on the outside looking in.

Theme song:

There's life down here in the shadows of the city.

It's sometimes sweet, but it's rarely pretty.

Gotta do whatcha gotta do, or so they say.

But it makes little difference at the end of the day.

The only thing tighter than the hope is the money.

And ain't nobody making jokes cuz this shit ain't funny.

Waiting for the tide to turn, feels like it might take forever.

Try to find a way out's all good, but they turn on you when you're clever.

Just need one good idea, that's all I need, is one good idea.

Just need one good idea, you know I'd kill for that one good idea.