Word: broads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Raymond, an un-apologetic drunk, as I sat drawing the vacant S. Klein department store on Broad Street, Newark's main avenue. Nursing a brown-bagged beer at 10:30 on a Friday morning, Raymond sat down next to me and remembered aloud how S. Klein's once anchored the vibrant string of stores along Broad in the fifties and sixties. Thinking back to those days, he praised the treatment of the "little guy" under Mayor Hugh Addonizio, the politician whose bungling and corruption led to the catastrophic 1967 riots...
...later realized Raymond's comments were driven less by his knowledge of political regimes, and more by his memories of the Newark he grew up with. As an old man, he could remember the days when Broad Street bustled with the best shopping in New Jersey. He blamed the city's current distress-sidewalks sparkling with broken glass and grand old buildings in shambles-on the present-day political leaders, rather than unfortunate legacies from the past. He showed me that not all of Newark's past should be buried, that some should be reclaimed and restored...
...major theme in his speech was the need for grassroots, local action, spurred on by individual activism, as opposed to broad reforms sponsored by the federal government...
...Broad Range of Topics...
Regarding "Hate Crimes Too Broad" (Dissent, Oct. 14) and the letters in the Oct. 19 Crimson: Unfortunately, long before Matthew Shepard's murder, conservative groups around the country mobilized against hate crime laws. They base their opposition on a number of myths...