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

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.”