Keith “Cash” McCrory
Keith “Cash” McCrory’s story starts in the darkest corners of New York’s streets. His record tells the truth of that life — five criminal convictions: two for weapons, two for drugs, and one for receiving stolen property. He served more than twenty-five years across Rikers Island, D.C. state facilities, and eight federal prisons. Twenty-one years were spent on a federal drug conspiracy alone. Every sentence, every cell, was a chapter in a life defined by survival, loyalty, and loss.
But prison also became his turning point. After years of being locked down, Keith began to see the cost — not just the time lost, but the people hurt and the potential wasted. He stopped chasing what broke him and started rebuilding himself with discipline, humility, and faith in what could still be done with the years he had left.
When he came home, he came back different. Keith now works for Mount Sinai Hospital as a Housekeeper and Laboratory Trainer, where his reliability and focus set him apart. Outside of work, he’s an entrepreneur, buying and restoring low-cost homes in Pennsylvania and renting them out — turning abandoned spaces into new beginnings for others.
As the only son among five sisters and a proud father of one son and one daughter, Keith’s family remains his anchor. They stood by him through the worst of it, and now they stand beside him in the light.
From federal cells to community service, from hustling on the block to training in a hospital lab, Keith “Cash” McCrory’s life embodies what Beat the Streets is all about — not erasing the past, but owning it, surviving it, and proving that redemption is real when you decide to live for something greater than yourself.
