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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...
...wanted a job back then, you go to him and you got a job," Raymond told me while leaning close enough so I could smell his breath. Pointing to where city hall stood, he attacked the current black mayor, Sharpe James: "All that guy James cares about is the suburbs and the rich folks...
...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...
Capuano said he is convinced that his frank style and local appeal overcame stronger name recognition--former Boston mayor and ambassador to the Vatican Raymond L. Flynn was a candidate--and deeper pockets in the party primary...
...good way to poke fun at the fact that we don't have much dating here," Raymond D. "Lano" Williams '00, president of Winthrop's House Committee, says...