Or Jackson Ave. if you've been around town longer than 1976.
A fascinating series on how Jackson Avenue later MLK started as a hub of businesses for African Americans who even looked the other way when trolly drivers who drove into the black sections of town would announce ""Coonie Avenue" instead of Kearney Avenue, "Niggie Avenue" instead of Ege Avenue, they said." The old shops are fondly remembered, including a live chicken/poultry store. The times they are a changing and Ken Thorbourne at the Jersey Journal is doing a great job in this series spelling out the issues holding the area back even today. If you read this article you are going to be surprised just how much money residents there spend and how zoning laws are keeping real investment from happening.
Everyone complains there's no real journalism going on? Go read.
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