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N side Warren St looking W from SE corner Summit St on July 24, 1960

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T​om C writes:
​”As an engineering student at NJIT from 1981 to ​’86 I was able to still see some of the beautiful old Newark intact. My parents ​– who were both natives from the 1920s to late ​’50s ​–​ spoke sadly about the aftermath of the riots and downfall of the huge hi​-rise low​-income ​’housing projects​.’
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“Thanks for bringing back some good memories – Newark Museum and the Ballantine House are true gems. Behind NJIT there was a restaurant called the Italian Kitchen. ​The building dated to the late 1880s​, and it was run by an elderly couple who had been there since the ​1950s. No menu, just what they wanted to make. Torn down in 1986​.”

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W side Plane St looking S from #116, rear yard Newark Museum, on June 10, 1960

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Guy Sterling writes:
“I bought my first house on this street back in the 1980s and lived here for 40 years. When I first moved in, there were packs of wild dogs roaming the street at night. From my bed late at night, I could hear groups of them howling during nightly dog fights on the empty street. By that time, most of the buildings shown in this photo were abandoned, lived in by squatters, or set on fire during arsons. I would walk the whole street of abandoned buildings, boarded up with plywood, or simply left open to the rain and wind. Today, this history is all parking lots.”

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Essex St looking N from James St on June 10, 1960

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Anne Mabry writes:
“This little wood-frame house was tucked between the Rutgers-Newark graduate dormitory (to the left) and the Rutgers parking lot (to the right) when we moved to James Street in 1991. We never learned who lived there except it was abandoned and owned by Rutgers. Possums lived in the basement. You can guess what happened next. Another ‘demolition by neglect.’ The tiny footprint the little green house occupied was swallowed up by the parking lot. Not a trace remains except for a piece of the decorative roof cornice that we saved and sits on our back porch.”

The Little Green House on Essex Street:

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W side Hunterdon looking SW from NE corner Lawton on April 21, 1962

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Jane Davis writes:
“I must have been age eight or nine. I walked down the stairs of our family home at 161 Watson Avenue late at night. And I remember overhearing my parents arguing in whispered tones talking about what to do. They had just received the government notice, evicting them from their home to build the highway. They argued: ‘Should we sell right away and get away? Or should we stay and fight to get a fair price for the value of our home?’ In the end, we left. I remember their conversation all these decades later.”