@DB,

yeah Weequahic, Vailsburg, and Forest Hills were some of the really nice sections of Newark pre riots (and for some time after)

BEAUTIFUL homes,high performing schools,etc

I never attended neighborhood schools but schools open to kids from around the city...and the kids from Weequahic were snobs.

The problem was a whole lot of kids from those areas felt like they had to prove to the world that they were just as tough as the kids from the projects. Eventually these wannabes succeeded in ruining their own neighborhoods and making them just as bad as the old projects on Prince Street.

Never the same after the dawn of the crack era.

Anyway...there's a doc. about Richie Roberts and other alum trying to restore that high school and neighborhood.