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Woodland Avenue once ran east from Broadway, opposite the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyards, to South 10th Street in Camden. Its 500 block was part of 'The Terraces,' four blocks of row houses mostly razed by 2008.
Sylvan Street runs west from South 10th Street for three and one-half blocks, ending a short distance west of South 7th Street, one block south of Woodland Avenue and three blocks north of Morgan Street in Camden, New Jersey.
Jesse Seybold of 923 St. John Street, the victim of a "thrill" holdup in March 1936, was arrested as the proprietor of a speakeasy after a police raid led by Patrolman John V. Wilkie.
Fiore Tiziana was fined $10 in traffic court after his automobile struck the car of Patrolman Nathan Wine at Broadway and Everett Street; Marshall Reinheimer was dismissed in a separate accident. Camden Courier-Post, June 17, 1932.
A weekend crime sweep in Camden: two alleged Philadelphia gangsters were trapped in Harleigh Cemetery by Patrolman Howard Bean and others, while a South Camden grocer routed two holdup men — four suspects held for the Grand Jury.
Store manager John Cullen was shot and near death after the second holdup of his American Store on Lansdowne Avenue in a week. Mounted Policeman Earl Wright arrested an armed suspect hours later at Third and Penn Streets.