First of all, those are old photos, and it looks like some kind of disaster has taken place in at least one of them, a fire or something. Secondly, Newark is a big spread-out city with lots of different neighborhoods.
The planes also flew over Forest Hill. I guess you didn’t look out the window when they did that. Constant airplanes overhead, to the point where I can’t hear a prop plane on the Hudson today without getting nostalgic for a sunny day in Newark, sort of like Proust’s madeleine. It meant we would probably be going to the park, or play in someone’s backyard.