[Clemenza]

I have a picture of my dad shopping in downtown Newark with my grandmother when I was a kid. Amazing to see all the department stores and theatres in what eventually became a war zone in 1967. Things have improved over the past few years.

I remember neighbors of mine on Long Island telling me how they used to go shopping in Jamaica until Green Acres was built.

[katnip]

Green Acres was nice, but you had to have a car to get there if you lived in Queens. Most families where I grew up in Queens didn't have cars.