Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Line Street


LINE STREET was named because it followed the finally settled line of division between the Cooper and Kaighn properties. It was originally laid out as a twenty foot alley, but in 1848 was made a street fifty foot wide. In 1848, when the city charter was amended by the State legislature, Line Street became the boundary between the Middle and South wards, Arch and Federal Streets serving as the boundary between the Middle and North Wards. Line Street is not to be confused with Liney Ditch, also known as Little Newton Creek and Kaighn’s Run, which served as the southern boundary of the South Ward. In time, under the encroachments of settlers and the march of industrial progress, the stream began to fill up and became merely a ditch, to which, by common consent, the name Line Ditch was given, as it also served to divide the lands of the Kaighn and Mickle families. 

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 Phil Cohen


200 Block of Line Street
  209 Line Street
Joseph Zito Family
1920s-1930s

Joseph & Rose Zito
Jennie Zito
Vincent J. Zito
Domenic Zito
Joseph Zito
Anthony Zito

  210-212-214
Line Street
Rocco Fanelle & Brother
Junkyard
210-212-214
Line Street

Mrs. Rose Fanelle
Judge Bernard Bertman
Donald Pollard
Baxter Street

Camden Courier-Post
June 30, 1928


Camden Courier-Post
April 6, 1928

Left: Vincent Zito
209 Line Street
Right: Joseph Toriano
605 Avon Street


Locust Street & Line Street
Line Street
West of Locust Street

August 2, 2006

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Line Street
East of Locust Street

August 2, 2006

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200 Block of Line Street
215 Line Street
Mrs. Alma Johnson
Boarding house
1920s

Camden Courier-Post
January 9, 1928

1942-1959 Alfred E. Green
Camden Fire Department

  215 Line Street

1880s Garrett Cowls
1947 Thurber Cadwell

  217-221 Line Street

Rocco Fanelle & Sons
Junkyard

  228 Line Street

1929-1930s Alfred E. Green
Camden Fire Department

  232 Line Street

Anthony and Lena Rago

  236 Line Street

 

  238 Line Street

Majestic Press

236 & 238
Line Street

August 2, 2006

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  242 Line Street

Campanale Grocery

  250 Line Street

1947 Camden Christian Center

  252 Line Street

First Italian Baptist Church

252 Line Street

First Italian Baptist Church
1939 Students & staff of the Bible School

Standing 4th from left in front row is me, Mike Coccia. The girl standing with the circle around her face is my sister Faust Coccia Spallina. Standing a little to her right a little below is my sister Angelina Coccia Gramenzi (with dark hair). Standing on the extreme right is the church nurse-Mrs Bass. Standing in the rear at the top of the steps is Miss Hatch- Missionary. The gentleman standing in the rear is Reverend Horton- Mike Coccia, December 2008

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250-252 Line Street

2006 Broadway Family Center

August 2, 2006

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South 3rd Street & Line Street
Line Street
&
South 3rd Street

August 2, 2006

Line Street
East of South 3rd Street

August 2, 2006

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300 Block of Line Street
  301 Line Street

1906 Joseph DeLice
barber
1947 George Fabrizio

  303 Line Street

1947 Angelo Rosato

  305 Line Street

1947 Emidio D'Ottavi

  307 Line Street

1947 Vincent Lauria

  308 Line Street

1947 Vacant

  309 Line Street

1947 Vito Lupini

  311 Line Street

1933 Mrs. Ida Lupini
1947 Alfonso Giuliani

  312 Line Street

1947 Alfonso Onorio

  313 Line Street

1947 Saturno Giorgi

  314 Line Street

1947 Carmen F. Mercantini

  315 Line Street

1947 Mrs. Maria DeAngelis

  316 Line Street

1894-1910
James Hunt & Family
James & Mary Hunt
George H. Hunt
Theodosia Hunt Conaghy
Eli Morgan Hunt

  316 Line Street

1947 Raymond Bednarski

  317 Line Street

1947 No Return

  318 Line Street

1947 Leon Branch
Detective, Camden Police

  319 Line Street

1947 David Marcozzi

319 Line Street

Frank & Angelina Gramenzi
May 1950

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319 Line Street

Rochelle Gramenzi
Late 1950s

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This is a picture of myself in the late 50's.  It was Easter Sunday and I'm standing right in front of our second floor apartment at 319 Line Street.  The picture is looking towards Broadway.  The men in the background are a collection of Italians from the neighborhood......

Rochelle Gramenzi
September 17, 2006

Cousins Hold Reunion

Three cousins from this area, two of whom are brothers, recently held a reunion at Norfolk, Virginia after being separated in Naval service for more than two years. They are Carlo and Arthur Canzanese, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Canzanese, of Riverside, formerly of Camden, and Arnold Canzanese, son of Mr. and Mrs. Renaldo Canzanese, 320 Line Street. Three other Canzanese cousins also are in service. They are Mary Canzanese, in the WAVES; Edward Canzanese, in the South Pacific, and Walter Canzanese, serving in this country.

320 Line Street

1945
Renaldo Canzanese & Family
Arnold Canzanese

Camden Courier-Post
August 15, 1945

  320 Line Street

1947 Rocco Fanelle

  321 Line Street

1947 Vacant

  322 Line Street

1947
Vincenzo Gramenzi
Gramenzi & Sons
Plumbers

Anna S. Gramenzi Doganiero

322 Line Street

early 1950s

Frank Gramenzi, and his Great Dane, Panzer. He is standing in front of the Golden Flame Manufacturing Co. truck at 320-322 Line Street in Camden.

Rochelle Gramenzi

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322 Line Street

Armand Gramenzi (on the right) standing in front of the old Gramenzi Home at 322 Line Street. He’s with his army buddy Joe McRuiz (on the left) who traveled all the way from Oklahoma.  The picture was taken in 1997.

Rochelle Gramenzi, 2008

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  323 Line Street

1947 Nazzarema DeVecchio

  324 Line Street

1947 Saverio Massi

  325 Line Street

1890s John T. Rodan
1947 Nazzareno Neppi

  326 Line Street

1947 Natale Gigiole

  332 Line Street

1947 Red Dragon Company
William Plummer
Angelo Rosata

Upholstery

  334 Line Street

1947 Pauk Di Pietropaoloi

  336 Line Street

1947 Dominic Radogna

  338 Line Street

1924 Victor Biasi
1936 
VFW Post 2685
1947 Victor Biasi

  340 Line Street

1910s-1920s George Hunt
1947 Anthjony Buteria

  342 Line Street

1924-1947 George Hunt

  344 Line Street

1924 Victor Biasi
1947 Sid Cohn
signs
1947 John J. Tocco
1947 Peter Tocco


South 4th Street & Line Street
701 South 4th Street
Southwest Corner
of
South 4th & Line Street

LARRY'S CAFE
1930s-1940s

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400 Block of Line Street
400 to 431 Line Street 
  408-410 Line Street

First Nazarene Baptist Church
1924

South Camden Bocce Club
1967

 

The Anna M. Sample Family Shelter is a temporary emergency shelter for 75 residents. This facility accommodates single parent families and intact families. Single women are referred to the shelter if the Single Women's Transitional Housing Program is full.

The family shelter provides 24 hour supervised housing, 3 meals a day, emergency clothing and case management. We also provide life skills workshops, drug and alcohol awareness, recreational enrichment, enterprise initiatives, a referral network and child enrichment activities.

408-410 Line Street

Volunteers of America
Anna M. Sample House
2006

 

416-418 Line Street
1906 Camden City Hand Laundry
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416-418 Line Street

Camden Poster Advertising Company
1920s-1930s

  420 Line Street
Morris DiAngelo

White Street & Line Street
   

400 Block of Line Street
432 to 440 Line Street 
  434 Line Street
Anthony "Tony Patch" Patragnoni
1920s - late 1970s
Tony's Grille

West Street & Line Street
   

400 Block of Line Street
441 to 451 Line Street 
  434 Line Street

Funeral services for Lewis Haventhal were held at his residence, 442 Line Street. Interment was made at Burlington NJ. Last night Camp No. 117, P.O.S.A. and Wilton Lodge, No. 6, I.O.M., held services at the house.

442 Line Street

1914 Lewis Haventhal

Camden Post-Telegram
December 11, 1914

  451 Line Street

Henry Street & Line Street
   

400 Block of Line Street
453 to 455 Line Street 
   

South 5th Street & Line Street
701 South 5th Street
Also Known as 444 Line Street
Southwest Corner
of
South 5th & Line Street

The Alfonso & Elvira Gentile Family

Tony Gentile on rooftop patio of building, looking east across South 5th Street at 720 and 712 South 5th. 710 South 5th street was the home and office of Dr. Frank Barnett, a dentist who lived and practiced there from the 1920s until his passing around 1957.

The Gentile family lived on this corner for many years. In the late 1940s two of the daughters, Gilda and Lydia, worked at Mesrob Avedissian's Crystal Cleaners at 1012 Broadway. Gilda Gentile married into the avedissian family sometime after the 1947 Camden City Directory was complied.


500 Block of Line Street
502 to 522 Line Street
519 Line Street

LINE CAFE
1930s - 2002

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Williams Street & Line Street
519 Line Street
Southeast Corner
of
Williams Street & Line Street

LINE CAFE
1930s - 2002

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500 Block of Line Street
523 to 533 Line Street
  529 Line Street

1937-1938 Nicholas Dandrea


 
Broadway & Line Street
  618 Broadway
Northeast Corner
of
Broadway & Line Street

John H. Dialogue Jr.
1890s - early 1900s

Son of shipyard owner John H. Dialogue Sr., John Jr., an engineer by trade, moved here in 1890 after leaving his parents home at 712 Broadway. The property was sold early in the 1900s, and the Carnegie Library was built on the site.

616 Broadway
Northeast Corner
of
Broadway & Line Street

CARNEGIE LIBRARY
also known as the 
Camden Free Public Library

Opened in 1905

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Broadway
&
Line Street

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  616 Broadway
Northeast Corner
of
Broadway & Line Street

CARNEGIE LIBRARY
also known as the 
Camden Free Public Library

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  617 Broadway
Ellis Drugstore
700 Broadway
 Southeast Corner
of
Broadway & Line Street

January 27, 1939
Banquet Program

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701 Broadway
Southwest Corner
of
Broadway & Line Street

Delia's Party Shop
November 2, 2004

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500 Block of Line Street
546 to 554 Line Street
   

St. John Street & Line Street
   

500 Block of Line Street
555 to 585 Line Street
  560 Line Street
Julius Beese
Jules' Grill
1940s
  571 Line Street
William Thorn
1919-1956
  571 Line Street
Mrs. Emily Jobes
1906-1914
  579 Line Street
Charles H. Errickson
1930s-1940s
  583 Line Street
John J. Welsh
1930s-1940s

South 6th Street & Line Street
   

600 Block of Line Street
600 to 616 Line Street
  601 Line Street

Trinity Church
N. A. Worrell

Camden Courier-Post
February 5, 1938


Roberts Street & Line Street
   

600 Block of Line Street
617 to 655 Line Street

Another Shapiro Appeal

To the Editor
Sir-Would suggest that in his call for a special session of the New Jersey Legislature. Governor A. Harry Moore include as one of his subjects that of a reward for Jack Shapiro, who was solely responsible for the collection of 14 millions of dollars from the late Dr. Dorrance estate.

Such legislation enacted would without a doubt meet with the hearty approval and satisfaction of the people of New Jersey.

Now is the proper time while the Legislature is in session to enact such legislation. Let us hope the governor heeds the advice and includes a reward for Jack Shapiro by the State of New Jersey as one of the subjects in, his call for a special session.

Respectfully yours,

MAE HINKLE
620 Line Street, Camden

620 Line Street

May Hinkle

Camden Courier-Post
August 11, 1934

627 Line Street

CORPORAL CHARLES H. PIPPETT
1940-1943

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629 Line Street

PRIVATE GEORGE F. SCHAFER
1920s-1930s

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630 Line Street

PRIVATE GEORGE F. SCHAFER
&
Family

1940s

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  641 Line Street
Ralph A. Bakley
1906-1914

Newton Avenue, South 7th Street & Line Street
   

700 Block of Line Street
754 to 774 Line Street
754 Line Street
Ensign James J. Cunningham
1916-1943
  764 Line Street

1924 Leroy Burgess Sr. Family
Leroy & Elsie Burgess
Leroy Burgess Jr.
Raymond J. Burgess

  765 Line Street
David S. Paul
1890s-1910
765 Line Street
George W. Johnson
1910s-1940s
  772 Line Street

November 2006
Abandoned and used by drug addicts
and other social undesirables

773 Line Street

1940s Paul B. Neale Family
William H. "Bill" Neale


Silver Street & Line Street
   

700 Block of Line Street
775 to 799 Line Street
SAMUEL H. TURNER

The funeral of Samuel H. Turner, 85, for 40 years a resident here, who died Monday night, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday. He was retired last October by the Pennsylvania Railroad after having been in the employ of the railroad 45 years. He was for 22 years an engineer on the Trenton division and was placed on the sick list 16 years ago when he suffered a stroke. 

He is survived by a son, John K. Turner, of Westmont, a daughter, Mrs. Helen T. Braislin of Haddonfield, and a sister, Mrs. Jane Asay. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Wyoming Tribe of Red Men and Camden Lodge of Moose

789 Line Street

1906-1933 Samuel H. Turner

Camden Courier-Post
June 21, 1933

  791 Line Street

1910s-1920s Patrick McVeigh Sr. Family
Mary Ellen McVeigh Soistmann

  793 Line Street

 

  795 Line Street

1920s-1930s Mrs. Isabel McVeigh Family
Mary Ellen McVeigh Soistmann

795 Line Street

1920s-1930s 
Mary Ellen McVeigh Soistmann

Camden Courier-Post
February 7, 1938


South 8th Street & Line Street
   

800 Block of Line Street
800 to 825 Line Street

LIGHTCAP - On Dec.7, 1911, Catharine Lightcap (nee Truscott), widow of Andrew Lightcap, aged 80 years.  The relatives and friends of the family are
respectfully invited to attend the funeral services, on Monday afternoon at two o'clock, from her late residence, 806 Line Street, Camden, NJ.  Remains
may be viewed on Sunday evening.  Interment at Harleigh
.

806 Line Street

1911 Catherine Truscott Lightcap

Camden Daily Courier
December 8, 1911

  807 Line Street

-1919 Harry Goodman

  809 Line Street
1914-1959
John R. Sheldon & Family
John R. & Amelia Sheldon
John Cooper Sheldon
Hannah Ruth Sheldon
Minnie Sheldon
  812 Line Street
1933 Hope Hemingway
  820 Line Street
1938 Bessie F. Griffith

Haddon Avenue & Line Street
  1909 to Present Day

Elevated Tracks originally for the Atlantic City Division of the West Jersey & Seashore Railroad were completed at Haddon Avenue and Line Street, early in June 1909. 


800 Block of Line Street
826 to 844 Line Street

DIVORCEE RAPPED, ALIMONY INCREASED
Court Scores Woman for Using Name of Boarder at Election

Although she was scored in Chancery Court for assuming the name of a man to whom she is not married, Mrs. Eldora G. Wood, of 830 Line Street, yesterday won an increase in a maintenance order for her two children.

Her petition was filed against her former husband, Abraham L. Wood, whom she divorced April 9, 1931. He was to have paid alimony of $20 a week, but this was later reduced to $4. Her appearance' before William J. Kraft, advisory master in chancery, was on a plea for an increase to $6.

Wood opposed the petition, and set forth that his wife has a boarder named James L. Gardiner. He alleged that on August 8, 1932, she registered to vote in Camden under the name of Eldora G. Gardiner and signed a sworn statement that the change in her name was due to marriage. She was also introduced several times as Mrs. Gardiner, according to Wood.  The woman went on the witness stand yesterday and denied that she had married Gardiner.           

"Why did you take his name?" asked the court.;

"Gardiner has helped me a lot," she replied.

"I don't think that that is the place for those children," retorted Kraft. "However, I’ll increase the maintenance to $6, but I want it understood it is for the children.”

830 Line Street

1932-1933 Mrs. Eldora Wood
1932-1933 James L. Gardiner

Camden Courier-Post
June 26, 1933

838 Line Street

Camden Courier-Post
March 21, 1932

Henry Fearon


South 9th Street & Line Street
   

900 Block of Line Street
910 Line Street
U.S. Tire Company
1947
  912 Line Street
Albert Marciano
1947

Haddon Avenue, Mount Ephraim Avenue & Line Street
Southeat Corner of
 Haddon Avenue, Mount Ephraim Avenue & Line Street

Tydol Gas Station
Bert's Steaks

Southeat Corner of
 Haddon Avenue, Mount Ephraim Avenue & Line Street

Tydol Gas Station
Bert's Steaks

January 2, 2006

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1001 Line Street
Northeast Corner of
 Mount Ephraim Avenue & Line Street

Fleck Plumbing & Heating Supplies

   
   
   

1000 Block of Line Street
1000 to 1044 Line Street
Looking East on Line Street
from
Mount Ephraim
&
Haddon Avenues

January 2, 2006

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1000 Line Street
(right)

January 2, 2006

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Edward & Lena Martin Family

1001 Line Street

Fleck Plumbing & Heating Supplies

1001 Line Street

Fleck Plumbing & Heating Supplies

January 2, 2006

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1002 Line Street
(left)

January 2, 2006

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Edward & Lena Martin Family

  1004 Line Street
1006 Line Street
(right)

January 2, 2006

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1008 Line Street
(left)

January 2, 2006

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1010 Line Street
(right)

January 2, 2006

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  1012 Line Street

Thomas B. Anderson
1920s-1932

1012 Line Street
(left)

January 2, 2006

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1014 Line Street
(right)

January 2, 2006

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1016 Line Street
(left)

January 2, 2006

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1016 Line Street
(right)

January 2, 2006

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1018 Line Street
(left)

January 2, 2006

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  1020 Line Street
1021-1025
Line Street
Cutler Metal Products
Herman Z. Cutler
1926 to 1954

January 2, 2006
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1021-1025
Line Street

Alpha Group III
Exotherm Corporation

January 2, 2006
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  1022 Line Street
  1024 Line Street
  1026 Line Street
George Martin Family
  1028 Line Street

1924-1929
Winfield D. Leviseur & Family
Winfield D. & Sarah Leviseur

  1030 Line Street
  1032 Line Street

The William Anderson Family
John Anderson
Thomas B. Anderson
Delia Anderson
Harry Strauss
1880s- late 1940s

  1034 Line Street
  1036 Line Street
  1038 Line Street
  1044 Line Street

Perry Street & Line Street
   


1000 Block of Line Street
1046 to 1062 Line Street
  1046 Line Street
  1048 Line Street
  1050 Line Street
  1052 Line Street
  1054 Line Street
  1056 Line Street
  1058 Line Street
  1060 Line Street
  1062 Line Street

Jane Street & Line Street

The intersection of Jane Street and Line Street is on the lower right in this photo. 1064 to 1074 Line Street are visible in this aerial photo, taken around 1930.

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1000 Block of Line Street
1064 to 1075 Line Street
  1064 Line Street
1065-1075 Line Street
Camden Convention Hall
1926 to 1954

Convention Hall's Line Street mailing address refers to the rear of the building. 
I have no idea as to why this is so- PMC.

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  1066 Line Street
  1068 Line Street
  1070 Line Street
  1072 Line Street
  1074 Line Street

Ringgold Street & Line Street
   

Memorial Avenue & Line Street

Aerial view of Memorial  Avenue, taken in the mid-1930s. Camden Convention Hall is at bottom of page, Mechling Brothers' factory is across Memorial Avenue, Parkside, Forest Hill Park, Camden High School, Farnham Park, and Central Airport are also visible.   

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1100 Block of Line Street
  1100 Line Street

Mechling Brothers Chemical Co.

By 1947 this firm was known as Mechling Brothers Chemicals, a division of General Chemicals Company


The Cooper River
 

EAST CAMDEN
 

South 27th Street Street & Line Street
   

2900 Block of Line Street
   

South 30th Street & Line Street
   

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Camden Courier-Post - November 21, 2006

Camden residents walk in fight to take back city

By ALAN GUENTHER
Courier-Post Staff

CAMDEN

Two dozen Camden residents recently took a nighttime walk on the wild side, past rows of abandoned homes, through neighborhoods so infested with crime and drugs that the dark streets are illuminated at night only by flashes of gunfire.

"We hear gunshots. We hear a lot of hollering and screaming. We hear people all night long -- drug addicts, drug dealers -- walking up and down the street," said Lisa Amegatcher, 34, who is trying to provide a safe home for eight adopted children in the Cooper Plaza section of the city.

Since Nov. 3, seven people have been found dead in Camden. Five were shot and killed. One was strangled. Another was stabbed.

"That's too much. Way too much," said Arturo Venegas, Camden's new top law enforcement official. "We're going to stop it."

That's why at 4 p.m. today , Venegas said, he is launching a drive he's calling "Call for Peace, Call to Action." At today's press conference, he said, he will challenge every church, every community group, every school organization to join police and walk through their neighborhoods together.

"This is about neighbors caring about neighbors," said Venegas as he walked along Berkley, Pine and Line streets with residents Friday night.

"We're going to take it street by street, block by block. . . . We're going to keep at it until we take our city back," Venegas said.

Friday night's walk covered about six city blocks. In that small area, residents pointed out three "hit houses" to police. Hit houses are abandoned buildings where addicts come to cook their heroin in spoons held over candles. They suck up the liquid with a syringe and inject a dose, or "hit," into their veins.

Three people were found in the hit houses Friday night, police Capt. Harry Leon said. Jennifer M. Lilly, 21, of National Park, Kareem Gardner, 29, of Williamstown, and Van Simmons, 39, of Camden, were all issued a summons for defiant trespass, Leon said.

Gardner denied any wrongdoing, saying he had visited a girl in the neighborhood and was trying to find his way back to the Hi-Speedline station when police found him. Simmons declined comment.

Lilly began to cry as police questioned her outside the squalid abandoned home at 772 Line St. Old sofas, a rug smelling of cat urine, burning candles and empty heroin packets littered the home, said Patrolman Stephen Gracia. He said he found Lilly sitting on a bed upstairs, surrounded by burning candles.

"I was just waiting for somebody," Lilly said. "A guy, "Twin,' stays here. I was just seeing him, I guess. I was just waiting for him to come back."

Tears gathered in the corners of her eyes as Lilly said she had been living on the street -- "on and off" -- for about a year. She is the mother of a little girl, Autumn, who will turn 4 in January and is living with Lilly's mother.

City resident Sheila Roberts, president of the Cooper Lanning Civic Association, confronted Lilly as she stood outside the house.

"You all destroy our neighborhood," said Roberts. "Don't come back here, because every time I see you here, I'm going to call the police. . . . You've got to find somewhere else to live. Get yourself some help."

As she led the tour, Roberts took police back to an area called the LEN triangle -- a small area bordered by Line, 8th and Newton streets.

Years ago, state Superior Court Judge Louis Hornstine helped the community raise $15,000 to install a basketball court, a playground and a garden.

But today, kids can't play in the area, Roberts said.

"The drug dealers came back here and took it over and tore it up," she said.

"I live right here," Roberts said, pointing to the back of her house on South 8th Street. Drug dealers try to elude police in high-speed car chases, roaring through the narrow alleyway at night.

"They drove a car right through the back of my house," Roberts said, about a year ago, ramming through a bathroom at 2 a.m. and spraying water everywhere.

"Kids can't come back here," she said. "It's not safe."

Venegas said police will be available to help groups that want to do walks to take back their streets. Asked how he will find the manpower to get the job done, he said Friday night that he didn't know.

"I just came up with this this morning," he said. "We're working out the details."

The city police force currently does not have a police chief and is under state supervision called "supersession." Venegas was recently hired by the state as the "supersession executive" to lead the department.

State and county officials said that when Venegas was police chief in Sacramento, Calif., he was known for demanding results from his officers in a tough-talking, no-nonsense way. He also was well known for working closely with community groups and paying attention to their requests.

For more than a decade, studies have called for the police to be more involved in the community, to get out of their squad cars and interact with neighbors.

"We're not going to "try to do this,' " Venegas said. "We're going to get this done. . . . The future of the young people of our city is being stolen by the criminals who feel that they can do whatever the hell they want in our parts of the city. And we're not going to tolerate it."