The precinct area spread south from the River Highway and the tall buildings which still boasted doormen and elevator operators to the Stem, with its delicatessens and movie houses, on south to Culver Avenue and the Irish section, still south to the Puerto Rican section, and then into Grover’s Park, where muggers and rapists ran rife. Running east and west, the precinct covered a long total of some thirty‐five city streets. And packed into this rectangle—north and south from the river to the park, east and west for thirty‐five blocks—was a population of 90,000 people.
