How was Hoboken during the 1980s (real estate, crime, neighborhood)

[NYmasters]

I would like stories of hoboken during the 1980s i would like to know people and crime and how neighborhood looked like back then and did the crack epidemic hit the area hard?

[lammius]

Watch Delivered Vacant, a documentary about Hoboken during the real estate boom of the 1980s. This is when the city's gentrification was really getting started. The film was made from a number of interviews with residents, developers, newcomers, etc. during the 1982-88 period. Delivered Vacant (1992) - IMDb