Auguste, 15, says there is tension between youth and the elderly in the neighborhood, especially when it comes to noise.
"Every little thing we do they complain," he says as rap music plays out of a boombox by the court.
Rage Against the Dying of the Light
On Saturday afternoon, local VFW Post 8818 on Huron Avenue was nearly empty.
WWII veteran and VFW member John R. Donoghue says out of 350 club members, only 10 or so show up each day.
"We're mostly dying off," Donoghue, 76, says. "We have to go to the younger generation when we get older," he says, referring to his friend Paul M. Donaghy, 55, also relaxing in the VFW's basement bar.
Donoghue still shows a strong sense of humor, even though the days when he and his friends used to sneak into the Adams House swimming pool are long gone.
"[The Italians] integrated, they married the Irish," he jokes. "This was an Italian neighborhood," he continues. "[But] there's only a few left that come up here."