The Italians of Belleville and Newark
Andrea Lyn Cammarato-Van Benschoten was born in Columbus Hospital in Newark and grew up in Belleville in the 1970s. “I loved it,” Cammarato-Van Benschoten said. “It was a primarily Italian-Irish neighborhood. We had a great street I grew up on. It was a time you could hop on your bike. No cell phones. No technology. […]