So were several other established furniture stores on the same strip of Surf Avenue.

In 1916, he began selling his own hot dogs from a building on Surf Avenue.

The police had retrieved the bike from a man who had been spotted pushing it down Surf Avenue.

He and the others live in housing projects along Surf Avenue, a few blocks from the strip of boardwalk where the woman was attacked.

It will be the first major new building on the north side of Surf Avenue, giving the street a much needed face-lift.

"I've seen people on Surf Avenue with briefcases full of live snakes," she said.

There's not much action on Surf Avenue; no numbers joints, no one tempting him to party.

The people on Surf Avenue are mostly working-class, the projects clean and graffiti-free.

But on Monday, there will be a parade down Surf Avenue to the new park.

Along Surf Avenue, there are signs of new life.