Good shot of this ugly scene. B&W works well too. The person walking by gives me the feeling that it has been there for a while and has become an everyday occurrence.
Nice job choosing black and white. It really works in this photograph. Glad you captured the person walking down the street as well...it really makes the composition.
I like the b/w conversion and how you've caught the feel of the area but including the buildings on the right shakes the balance and they seem too overexposed.. Maybe if you'd walked just a little to the right and gotten the sharp corner of the building.. that would have made the composition more simple and perhaps stronger. Another problem here is the black plastic bags seem completely camouflaged.. maybe moving in closer to get more detail would have helped..