This is a photo of my sister and a neighbor, probably taken in early 1964, on Pamrapo Avenue in Jersey City, NJ. This was a neighborhood on the brink of change. A public housing project was built on the next street over in 1959, originally intended for fixed-income seniors. By the late '60's, the infamous Curries Woods projects (which Ted Koppel devoted several Nightline episodes to around 1990), was becoming a breeding ground for crime, as younger, lower-income people replaced the seniors. My family moved to the suburbs in 1967 (the year after I was born), as the area was no longer a safe place to raise children. View full size.