About 8 p.m., officers were called to 616 Halsey Street, where they said they found a 35-year-old man who had been shot in the back.

His late grandmother lived on Halsey Street nearby for 40 years.

Further down Halsey Street, hundreds of neighborhood people filed outside into the cold, rainy afternoon.

On Halsey Street in Newark, the burly black man found what he was looking for.

The only thing is he liked to hang out on Halsey Street with his friends.

For now though, nine bases line a quarter-mile stretch of Halsey Street, with their backs and docks facing the water.

Halsey Street in downtown Newark is named after him.

The building on Halsey Street was a tired, chalky old tenement.

There was a cab stopped for a red light at the corner of Halsey Street.

Each team has a base on Halsey Street in Auckland that it rents from the city for roughly $1 million.