Haarith Alston-Taalib writes:
“Yes, at the corner in this photo is where my family lived until June of 1968. We lived in the apartment just above the sign for John M. Riccio’s grocery store; I have a photo of me at that intersection. I also have a photo of my brother Richard and I on Easter standing at that wall next to the door by the car under the billboard. That fence before the garage was our backyard. The garage was where Mr. Riccio’s food supply was stored. Next to our house, on the right, was a house where Nuns lived (it has that gate around it). I’m going to send the photo of me. We moved from there the year after the riots in Newark.”
Haarith Alston-Taalib’s home was the second-floor window on the left. He writes:
“One of those cars near the corner was my dad’s car in 1967-68.”
Photo of the identical location in June 2012, now the campus of UMDNJ:
